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An unexpected 8.5 percent purchase of YPF by the world's richest man, Carlos Slim, has brought also optimism for the Buenos Aires stock exchange Merval. After weeks of losses due to the seizure of 51 percent of the company by the Argentinian government, YPF's stocks had a high of 9.08 percent last Friday. The stocks in New York also grew - by 6.89 percent and closing the trades at US$ 11.17. It also reflected on other oil companies traded at Merval such as Petrobras Energía, which had a 10.79 percent high. The Merval index had a 3.5 percent high, after some bad weeks.

here has been three decades that Argentina and Britain joined a war at the Falklands. The war has a bunch of issues to be explored. Author of the book Rabinos de Malvinas (Rabbis from the Falklands), Hernan Dobry is an Argentinian journalist who has been a Bloomberg TV editor, a correspondent for Brazilian and Spanish channels in Buenos Aires, managing editor of Inversor Global, among other major publications. Dobry decided to write the book about the Falklands conflict to describe the unhumane struggles of the Argentine fighters at the time. Also, Dobry wanted to explore the relantionship between rabbis and the Armed Forces of his country. In an interview to Timizzer, the journalist explains more on the book and talks about the economic issues of Argentina...

Horst Paulmann came to South America from Kassel, Germany in 1948 with his family running away from the second World War without much in his hands. It was an uneasy beginning in the new continent. He started working, at 15 years old, as a telephone operator in Buenos Aires, but his short knowledge of Spanish resulted in a termination in the first year. Then, Paulmann used money to manufacture furniture for toys, which were sold to a supermarket chain, however, it also didn't last much. In 1949, the Paullmann family moved to Chile.

A survey released by the Center for Strategic and Competitive Thinking, from the University of Rosario, Bogotá, and the consultancy firm Cepet, says that São Paulo is the best city of Latin America considering opportunities of investments. The study ranked the top ten in the region. São Paulo was highlighted because of the size of its metropolitan area, the volume traded at the exchange Bovespa, and the huge number of multinationals in the region. Santiago (in Chile), which left the first spot from last year, places second, but continues to be very visible to international investors, says the study. Mexico city remained on the third place