H210 Slowdown Gathering Steam

Our long-standing view that growth will cool considerably in Brazil in the latter part of 2010 is now firmly playing out, with latest industrial production data again surprising consensus expectations to the downside. June figures reveal a 1.0% month-on-month (m-o-m) contraction, the sharpest fall since the height of Brazil's recession in December 2008.

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