Brazil lifts benchmark rate to 13%, above expectations

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SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Brazil's central bank rate committee late Wednesday raised its key interest rate by 75 basis points, to 13%, as it moved to curb rising inflationary pressures. Economist...

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