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Risk’s quarterly round-up of corporate risk disclosures reveals many companies wrestling with – or occasionally benefiting from – exposures to a weakening Brazilian Real and strong gold and oil prices in the third quarter. By Naomi Humphries

Companies blamed shrinking third-quarter revenues and margins mainly on currency fluctuations, commodity prices and the weather in financial disclosures over the past three months.

Exposure to the rapidly deteriorating Brazilian Real in the third quarter burdened many, including Spanish energy company Endesa, US retail paper products maker Kimberly Clark, British American Tobacco and US

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