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Autonomous investors’ profits to drop 30 percent

With Brazil’s benchmark stock index Ibovespa falling by over 25 percent since the beginning of the crisis, many autonomous investors relying on commissions are experiencing a drop in profit. As their clients invest less, it is expected that their monthly income could decrease by up to 30 percent, as reported by business publication Valor Investe.

Augusta Saraiva

Augusta is a Brazilian journalism student at Northwestern University

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