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Oscillations in the financial market during the subprime crisis brought about a rise in volatility and fall of the prices of assets, in addition to increasing the degree of common movements among markets. This paper surveyed the contagion effect of the international financial crisis on the indices of Brazil's stock market, from the study of the pattern of alterations of the correlations estimated...