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Brazilian stocks have been falling in lock step, and the MSCI Emerging Markets Index is down 2. 3% in two days as of 1: 10 p. m. in London.

The U. S. currency also lost 1. 4% against the Australian dollar and was even weaker against the Brazilian real, falling 2. 7%.

Last week, it announced what amounted to a 1% tax on investors who bet the dollar would decline again the Brazilian real.

Three Brazilian army crew members had a lucky escape when their Eurocopter AS550 Fennec helicopter crashed in Nova Friburgo on 20 January.

Fourteen aircraft -- 12 Brazilian and two French -- were participating, along with five Brazilian ships and one French frigate.

Brazilian industrial production actually fell 1. 6% in June from May for the first time since the 2008 global financial crisis.

For comparison, Brazilian iron-ore giant Vale, with $23 billion in annual sales, has a market cap of $180 billion.

Brazilian FDI in Africa between 2001 and 2008 added up to just $1. 12 billion, according to the Brazilian Central Bank.

The U. S. dollar rose 1. 8% against the Canadian dollar and 0. 6% against the Brazilian real.

In return the Brazilian mining giant will take a 22% stake in Norsk and pocket $1. 1 billion in cash.

Inquiry reveals that half of Sony's 1, 600 factory workers are of Japanese-Brazilian descent.

Brazilian stocks are lower by 1. 5%.

In the 1963 Champions Cup15 played against Benfica Lisabona, Milan won 2-1 with two goals of the Brazilian Jose Altafini.

In 2010, CBMM had net sales of about 2. 9 billion Brazilian reais ($1. 76 billion) and profits of 1. 1 billion reais.