Word: peso
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...Much, Peso Little In the largest debt restructuring of modern times, Argentina persuaded the bulk of 500,000 creditors to swallow losses of up to 70% on the $102.6 billion they were owed when Argentina defaulted on its payments...
Summers, who as deputy secretary of the Treasury orchestrated a multi-billion-dollar international aid package to prop up the Mexican peso in 1995, is preparing to return to Mexico next week for meetings with top government officials and Harvard alumni...
...high with U.S. critics for their exuberant, fruity and floral styles. "We're aiming for the 25-to-40-year-old market," says Catena in his state-of-the-art winery, built like a Maya pyramid. "It's more aligned with the New World trend." Helped by the Argentine peso's 2001 devaluation, Catena now exports 85% of its wine, half of that to the U.S., and its once negligible exports are nearing $10 million...
...appeal," says pri Congressman Carlos Flores. Fox has also seemed hesitant or unable to tackle dark human-rights abuse cases from the PRI era, including the massacre of hundreds of pro-democracy demonstrators on the eve of the 1968 Mexico City Summer Olympics. All that, combined with a weaker peso and a stagnant economy that is hemorrhaging factory jobs to China, resulted in the pan losing more than 50 seats in the 500-member lower house of Congress in last July's midterm elections. At the same time, Fox has had to watch his stock plummet in Washington, where...
When action star Fernando Poe Jr. announced he was running for President of the Philippines last week, the Manila stock market fell nearly 2% and the peso tanked to its lowest level in a century. The Central Bank governor quickly announced that the markets weren't freaking out over Poe alone but were reacting to "a series of events over the last four weeks." Indeed: a band of congressmen tried (unsuccessfully) to impeach the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court; the administration of President Gloria Macapagal Arroyo saw a mini-exodus of officials, including respected Finance Secretary Jose Isidro Camacho...