The 12 month rolling IPCA-15 inflation figure is around 6.5%, well above the central tolerance band of the Central Bank, which is around 5.5%.
Hey presto, because the median is higher than the mode, the central-band inflation forecast is higher than before.
The resulting central-band forecast, unlike the Bank's, is no more likely to be overshot than undershot, even if the risks are skewed.
In these circumstances, the probability that inflation will exceed the Bank's central-band forecast is greater than the probability that it will come in lower than the band.
The Hungarian forint, which moves in a band either side of a central rate against the euro, is trading within a whisker of its upper limit, even after a cut of three-quarters of a point on February 21st.
Central Scotland Police has disbanded its pipe and drum band and reformed it as a civilian one.
It promises to keep the shekel's market value within a band seven percentage points above or below a central rate.
Now there is just one rate that trades within a narrow band with a reference rate set by the central bank daily in conjunction with local financial institutions.
It was the misguided effort by Thailand's central bank to keep the baht within a pre-set band that triggered the 1997 disaster.
On any given trading day, the currency is allowed to move 0.5% above or below the price set by the central bank, an improvement from the 0.3% band that existed until May 2007.
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Though the Singapore dollar is close to its highest for seven years, some analysts expect the city-state's central bank to raise the ceiling on the currency's (unpublished) trading band soon, to counter the inflationary effects of high oil prices and a tight labour market.
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Farmers band together to hire a lorry to get their cassava or charcoal from the central city of Kikwit to market in Kinshasa.
Meanwhile, China's central bank chief Zhou Xiaochuan said the yuan - which is currently tied to a narrow band against the dollar - would see its flexibility increased.
The central bank also loosened its grip on the currency a little, widening the yuan's daily band from 0.5% either way to 1%.
For 2009 the U.S. central bank expects the GDP, at best, to grow by 1.1%, but the forecast band runs as low as a 0.2% contraction.
Central Scotland Police announced in October that, because of the single force, it had disbanded its pipe and drum band and reformed it as a civilian one, the Bannockburn and District Pipe Band.
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