41.   Supermarket chain SA Exportadora y Importadora Patagonia is the only Argentine share that Spigelman has purchased recently.

42.   Telephone companies Telefonica de Argentina and Telecom Argentina Stet-France Telecom, the two Argentine shares most traded by foreign investors, were among the biggest gainers.

43.   Argentine shares skyrocketed Thursday as investors, fearing continued civil unrest would force President Fernando de la Rua to devalue the peso, snapped up blue chips.

44.   Argentine shares, which took their biggest one-day plunge in two years Tuesday, bucked their downward spiral Wednesday.