Feb 28 (Reuters) - Economists raised their forecasts for the rise this year in Brazil's benchmark IPCA consumer price index for the 12th consecutive week, according to a weekly central bank survey.
Forecasts for the benchmark IPCA consumer price index [BRCPI=ECI], Brazil's most widely watched gauge of inflation, rose to 5.80 percent from 5.79 percent in the previous week, according to the survey published on Monday.
(Reporting by Guillermo Parra-Bernal, Editing by W Simon
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