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Investors Losing Confidence In BRIC banks.
Brasil's banks have raised borrowing costs to 46%...up from 41% in December...as consumer defaults hit a 12-month high in June...as they seem "overstretched".
One economist predicts that "a retrenchment may drag down Brasil’s economic growth rate to 2.5% in 2013, from 7.6% last year."
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