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Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, President and First Lady-Senator of Argentina, should love Venezuela's Hugo Chavez unequivocally. After all, Chavez is using Venezuela's petroleum riches to shore up Argentina's struggling economy, buying $1 billion of the country's bonds and investing $400 million in a natural gas plant to bolster Buenos Aires' energy needs. Indeed, there used to be a lot of mutual affection among the Latin American leaders, fellow leftists all. Last March, the couple played host to Chavez, and allowed him to use his visit to stage a rally against the U.S. and President Bush...
...Turkish glassmaking stocks, Serbian construction stocks and inflation-index-linked housing bonds in Iceland. Today he says he has no dominant positions and cites certain themes such as insurance providers in emerging markets and food. In the latter, he likes beneficiaries of cheap agriculture and protein, noting opportunities in Argentina GDP warrants, Brazil broadly and fertilizer companies in Taiwan. In equities he likes Serbia, Macedonia, Malaysia and the GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) countries, and he is looking to other frontier markets, including Kazakhstan and Georgia. Pushed to home in on one idea, Leitner says his favorite trade is buying...
...speaking with Haugerud at Tryst, the sprawling nightclub at the Wynn Las Vegas, where champagne is flowing freely and folks are beginning to loosen up after a cerebral day of presentations. Can this be the same person whose talk on buying farmland in Argentina, Brazil and the Midwest was intimidating in its attention to detail? In one breath she's discussing how the price per acre for Iowa farmland is not far from its nominal highs reached in 1973; in another she's recounting her early professional life in Geneva and how much fun she had. She seems almost normal...
...Research Institute in Moss Landing, Calif., led a team of scientists that studied two bergs, one about 1.25 miles (2 km) long and the other closer to 13 miles (21 km), in the Weddell Sea, which lies between the Antarctic continent and the southern Atlantic, near the tip of Argentina...
...agreeing with my twenty-something Argentine peers by simply opposing the war in Iraq or Bush’s disregard for an Argentina on the brink of collapse in 2001 doesn’t redeem me in their eyes. Engaged in an Argentine-beer-fueled, late-night debate about the evils of the U.S.’s foreign policy, I explained that I had voted against Bush in 2004, and that I would be happier to see him go than most. The Argentines present weren’t placated. “He’s ruining your country...