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While much of the focus of recent months has been on the effect of the financial and economic crisis on the banking sector, in Brazil its effect on the corporate sector is of at least equal immediate importance. Certainly, the financial environment is likely to have more significant short-term repercussions for Brazilian corporates than for those in a number of other countries.