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Article: Brazil's stock up 37 percent in first half of year
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- Xinhua News Agency
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- June 30, 2009
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Brazil's stock up 37 percent in first half of year
RIO DE JANEIRO, June 30 (Xinhua) -- Brazil's Sao Paulo stock
exchange (Bovespa) was down 1.59 percent on Tuesday, closing at
51,465 points and leading to an accumulated fall of 3.25 percent in
June, the first since February.
In the first half of the year, however, the Ibovespa index
accumulated a rise of 37.05 percent from the 37,550 points
registered by the end of 2008. Due to the crisis effects in the
second half of 2008, the Ibovespa index suffered a 20.84 percent
fall in the past 12 months.
The trade volume negotiated on Tuesday reached 5.16 billion reais
(2.63 billion U.S. dollars). The largest companies listed in the
Bovespa, ...