Argentina Raises Rates as Peso Plummets

Argentina Raises Rates as Peso Plummets

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The central bank raised interest rates in an effort to stabilise the country’s financial crisis. The value of Argentina’s peso continued to fall on Thursday, plunging by more than 13% after a 7% drop a day earlier. Also, the number of black women on the front covers of fashion magazines is up, but is it a fad or part of a long lasting change? And the man known as the Russian Frank Sinatra, Iosif Kobzon, has died at the age of 80.