RIO DE JANEIRO: Brazil slashed its key interest rate further on Wednesday to try to yank Latin America’s biggest economy out of its worst recession in a century.

The country’s central bank cut the benchmark rate by 0.75 percentage points to 12.25 percent -- still one of the world’s highest.

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