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Economy & Business - October 2005

Bank lending set to boom

Lower interest rates, plus the reasonably stable economic prospects even though 2006 will be an election year, is likely to mean a boom in bank lending. Banco Bradesco, Brazil's biggest non-state owned bank, reckons that it will increase lending by 35% in 2006. The bank said that lending was currently growing at a 22% clip.

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