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Traders take a break as trading was halted on the main floor of the BM&F Bovespa stock exchange market in Sao Paulo October 6, 2008. Trading on Brazil's stock market was halted after a 15 percent drop in its benchmark index, as Latin American currency, stock and bond markets disintegrated in opening trade on fears over the mushrooming global financial crisis. [Agencies]