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The Argentine Peso Collapses

The Argentine peso collapses, falling 15% in two hours. And, the president of FC Barcelona, Sandro Rossell, quits to fight accusations he cooked the books.

The Argentine currency - the peso - collapses, falling 15% in two hours - its sharpest one-day fall against the dollar since 2002. Also on the programme, the president of Barcelona football club, Sandro Rossell, quits to fight accusations he cooked the books when signing Brazilian star, Neymar. Nissan drives into trouble over one of its US TV commercials, and professor Ann Lee in Washington DC talks Davos and ludicrous job titles with Alex Frangos at the Wall Street Journal in Hong Kong.

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Fri 24 Jan 2014 01:06GMT
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