Word: marketeers
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Dates: during 1980-1989
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...early last week, Menem's economic medicine was already showing some positive effects. On Monday the black-market rate for dollars dipped below the official exchange rate for the first time since the austral plan was implemented by former President Raul Alfonsin in 1985, demonstrating credibility in the currency's new valuation. Investors and bankers were favorably impressed by the seriousness of the Peronist leader's austerity plan, which prompted the Buenos Aires stock exchange to rise 6.5% in a single day and sent monthly interest rates down 44 points...
...pandemonium as the C.B.O.T. issued an emergency order, its first in a decade, that July futures contracts in excess of 1 million bu. be liquidated. In one day soybean-futures prices plunged 5%, to $6.86 per bu. Traders speculated that a single buyer was trying to corner the market or drive up prices. The suspected culprit: Ferruzzi Finanziaria, Italy's second largest privately held company and the third largest U.S. soybean processor since it bought Indiana-based Central Soya...
...before Exxon and the National Transportation Safety Board release their reports on the Valdez spill. Meanwhile, late-night comics continue to rip into the skipper, and several songs about a drunken Hazelwood play on Alaskan radio stations. Not long ago, a businessman called Hazelwood to ask permission to market a novelty item called Ole Hazelwood -- a liquor bottle filled with oil and water...
...feel I got a pretty good deal, especially considering the circumstances," Hinz said Wednesday in an telephone interview from the squad's Bryant College training camp in Smithfield, R.I. "I know there's been a lot of trouble signing rookies around the league, and the market isn't that great right now. There are still a lot of players out of camp here...
...front-page editorial, the People's Daily called on the Group of Seven to consider China's "global strategic importance" and potential as a market...