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Brazil keeps economic excitement in check

By Lionel Barber, Jonathan Wheatley and John Paul Rathbone

Published: October 25 2009 19:45 | Last updated: October 25 2009 19:45

Rio de Paz campaign group on Copacabana beachReuters
Members of the Rio de Paz campaign group are pushed in supermarket trolleys on Copacabana beach to symbolise 20,000 deaths in Rio de Janeiro

It is the kind of news that would normally spook investors: Henrique Meirelles, the governor of Brazil’s central bank, is preparing to go into politics.

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