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- <text id=89TT1638>
- <title>
- June 26, 1989: Business Notes:Financial Markets
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- <history>
- TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1989
- June 26, 1989 Kevin Costner:The New American Hero
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- <article>
- <source>Time Magazine</source>
- <hdr>
- BUSINESS, Page 59
- Business Notes
- FINANCIAL MARKETS
- Rubber Checks On the Bourse
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- <p> Among wealthy Brazilians, such pastimes as sunbathing and the
- samba have been joined lately by stock-market speculation. Since
- May 1987 the bourse in Rio de Janeiro has jumped almost 400%.
- Lebanese immigrant Naji Robert Nahas, who alone accounted for
- nearly half of the market's trades in recent weeks, brought
- Brazil's bulls to a halt last week after several brokerage houses
- discovered that $31 million of his checks had bounced on them. To
- avoid a bearish stampede, the Rio and Sao Paulo markets were forced
- to close last Monday. When trading resumed the next day, the
- benchmark I.B.V. index plunged 9% and ended the week down 32%.
- Nahas is a past master of shady finance: three years ago the U.S.
- Government fined him $250,000 for his role in manipulating silver
- prices.
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- </body></article>
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