Brazil recession likely to fuel higher mortgage defaults: Moody's

Dominant state-owned lender Caixa also faces higher financing costs

Thu, Apr 28, 2016 - 5:50 AM

Brasília

BRAZILIAN banks will write fewer mortgages this year as delinquency rates climb amid the country's worst recession in more than a century, according to Moody's Investors Service.

State-owned lender Caixa Economica Federal, which issues almost three-fourths of housing loans...

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