SAO PAULO: Brazil’s Central Bank warned on Thursday (Friday in Manila) of a deeper-than-expected recession in the world’s seventh-largest economy, with the darkening outlook sending the national currency plunging to new lows.

The bank projected a 2.7-percent contraction in the Brazilian economy this year, a major revision from its June estimate of a 1.1-percent decline.

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