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Byline: Jane Bussey
Oct. 30--In a day of disheartening announcements and growing fears that Argentina was stepping to the brink of default, investors sold off stock and bonds, signaling that international financiers were in no mood to tango with finance authorities in the South American nation.
Argentina's stock exchange registered its worst losses in two years, with the Merval stock index plunging 8.67 percent to 219.54 points. The gloom spread to neighboring stock markets in Brazil and Chile and even extended to Wall Street, where analysts cited the worsening Argentine situation as one factor that contributed to the Dow closing down.
But by far the worst news …