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A supermarket on Rua Lima e Silva in Porto Alegre in 2024. Food and beverages was the group with the largest impact on October's IPCA.

Brazil's inflation slows to 0.14% in October as power bills fall, but the 12-month rate reaches 4.63%

The Joint Budget Committee hearing with Planning and Budget Minister Bruno Moretti, in Brasília, on 11 November 2026.

Fiscal adjustment

Brazil details a R$ 50 billion to R$ 60 billion fiscal adjustment for 2027 as the bill reaches the Senate

Petrobras headquarters in downtown Rio de Janeiro, in 2009.

Petrobras posts R$39.8 billion profit in the third quarter, up 21.5%, and approves R$15.3 billion in shareholder payouts

The Duque de Caxias refinery (Reduc), in the background, seen from a neighbourhood of the Rio de Janeiro state municipality in 2018. Coke and petroleum products were the biggest drag on Brazilian industry in September 2026.

Brazil's industrial output falls 0.8% in September, the fourth drop in five months, and 2.5% in a year

The buildings of the Ministério do Trabalho e Emprego and the Ministério da Previdência Social in Brasília, pictured in January 2023.

Brazil added 121,300 formal jobs in September, 43.5% fewer than a year earlier

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in a 2007 photograph.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.2% in the third quarter, the lowest for the period since 2012, as employment hits a record 103.6 million

The Receita Federal office in Sousa, in the state of Paraíba, in 2011.

Brazil's federal tax take reaches R$239.38 billion in September, a record for the month

The headquarters of the International Monetary Fund, on 19th Street NW in the Foggy Bottom neighbourhood of Washington, in March 2026.

IMF projects Brazil as the world's 8th largest economy in 2027, ahead of Italy and Russia

The headquarters of the IBGE's documentation and information centre in Rio de Janeiro, in 2007. The institute runs the Pnad Contínua survey.

Brazil's jobless rate falls to 5.3% and employment reaches a record 103.5 million

The Ministério da Fazenda building on the Esplanada dos Ministérios in Brasília, in 2023.

Brazil trims its 2026 budget freeze to R$16.1 billion — and starts forecasting a primary deficit