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Sunday, January 26, 2014

Argentina's problems go from bad to worse.

Argentina's peso suffered its worst fall since the country's crisis 12 years ago yesterday, plummeting 11% to an official rate of around 7.9 to the dollar. The black-market rate is about 13. The collapse in the currency came after the central bank appeared to have stopped defending the currency amid a deepening of Argentina's current economic woes, which includes inflation of 25% or more.

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