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Strategies & Market Trends : Telebras (TBH) & Brazil
TBH 0.590-7.9%Dec 23 3:59 PM EST

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To: Steve Fancy who wrote (9341)11/3/1998 2:05:00 PM
From: Steve Fancy  Read Replies (1) of 22640
 
Brazil's Cardoso: Reforms Needed Before Rates Will Be Cut

Dow Jones Newswires

SAO PAULO -- As Brazil's Congress gets set to tackle a key reform bill
this week, President Fernando Henrique Cardoso said Tuesday that
interest rates won't be cut until needed structural reforms are approved.

"To cut interest rates, we need to reduce the public deficit, and for that, we
need to approve reforms," Cardoso said. "There's no way to escape this."

Brazil's key lending rate was nearly doubled to 49.75% in September as
investors fled the country following Russia's default and devaluation in
August.

Cardoso said he is confident that Congress will approve the three
outstanding points of the social security bill, which has been delayed in
Congress for more than three years. The lower house begins final
deliberations on the controversial points Wednesday.

"Congress will not fail in its duty to pass the social security reform bill," he
said.

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