NZ stocks fall on global sentiment, Argosy paces declines
New Zealand stocks fell on global anxiety over Europe’s sovereign debt issues.
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Brazil to Freeze Billion in 2011 to Help Bring Down Rate, Mantega Says
President-elect Dilma Rousseff will block new spending initiatives and slash subsidies to the state development bank next year to allow the central bank to cut interest rates, Brazil’s Finance Minister Guido Mantega said.
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