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Brazil’s Industrial Production Fell by 6.3 Percent in 1st Semester

By Lise Alves, Senior Contributing Reporter

SÃO PAULO, BRAZIL – The industrial production in Brazil for June declined 0.3 percent in relation to May, when the country’s production had signaled a slight recovery by growing by 0.6 percent. With the June result, the country’s industrial production closed the first semester of 2015 with an accumulated decline of 6.3 percent, according to data from the IBGE (Brazilian Statistical Bureau), the steepest decline since 2009.

In the first semester of 2014 the decline had been much milder, 2.4 percent. According to the IBGE, the June index . . .

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