Brazil's central bank raised its key interest rate by a full percentage point on Wednesday for the first time since 2003, and pledged to step on the policy tightening accelerator even harder to ensure inflation is pulled back toward target next year.
The Australian and New Zealand dollars were busy going nowhere on Friday as recent tight ranges showed no sign of ending, leaving kiwi bulls hoping for a rate rise next week and the promise of more to break it loose.
The French economy ran at between 1.0-1.5% below pre-COVID-19 levels in July, according to a Bank of France survey on Monday, as the euro zone's second biggest economy emerged from a lockdown but faced new protocols to tackle the virus.