BOO HOO! INFLATION’S OVER
Brazilian bankers have every reason to agree with the slogan which the Finance Minister, Dilson Funaro, likes to repeat with religious fervour: “This is a new country now.” It is, and, for banks, a coldly unpleasant one.
Since February 28 was declared a bank holiday, so that an anti-inflation programme could be announced, the banks have been deprived of “monetary correction”, the form of indexing which worked so much to their advantage.
Fernao Bracher, president of Brazilhs central bank (and until last August a private sector banker) admitted that the banks had suffered “very big losses”.
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