Brazil's lubricant market will likely record a contraction of around 3% for all of 2009, which would be relatively mild considering the scale of the economic downturn and someone considered it a good result given the current crisis situation. The latest data shows that for the first nine months of the year, the Brazilian market shrank 8.5% compared with the year-earlier period. 巴西的润滑剂市场今年显示下降了3%左右，下降幅度相对温和，很多人认为在经济危机的形式下，这至少还是个好结局。