Brazil's economic growth is expected to slow down in the second half of 2025, encumbered by high interest rates and worries about the U.S.-led global trade shake-up, a Reuters poll found.

Brazil's gross domestic product (GDP) is forecast to increase 2.2% this year and 1.7% in 2026, according to the median estimate of 38 analysts polled on July 14-21.

Brazil, it seemed, caught pneumonia.While analysts expect a tough 2009 for Brazil, no one expects the global crisis to unleash hyperinflation, prompt huge layoffs or cause an economic depression ...

Brazil’s economic activity dropped far more than expected in May, a signal that sky-high interest rates are starting to weigh on Latin America’s biggest economy.

William Jackson, chief emerging markets economist at Capital Economics, said Brazil's economy was on track to grow about 2.3% this year, up from his previous forecast of 1.8%.

July 16 - As we approach the United Nation’s 30th climate conference, COP30, to be held in Belem, Brazil this November, the need for nations to transition from a linear to a circular economy has ...

More information: Eduardo A. Haddad et al, Shades of blue: the regional structure of the ocean economy in Brazil, npj Ocean Sustainability (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s44183-025-00112-x ...

Unlike the 21 other countries that have received letters from Trump this week, the US ran a $6.8 billion trade surplus with Brazil last year, meaning the US exported more goods to there than it ...