Hedge Fund Verde Sees Aggressive Brazil Rate Cut This Month

(Reuters) Verde Asset Management SA, which runs Brazil’s largest hedge fund, sees “good chances” that the country’s central bank will cut the benchmark overnight lending rate by a bigger-than-expected 75 basis points this month in a bid to revive a weak economy. In a monthly letter to investors, money managers led by Luiz Stuhlberger said Verde stepped up holdings of fixed-rate debt on hopes of a bigger rate cut. Verde had already built a sizeable position in inflation-linked debt ahead of the recent start of the country’s first rate-cut cycle in four years.

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