Latinnews Daily - 15 August 2003

The government and the financial markets hailed the pension deal hammered together in the lower chamber of congress on Wednesday night. The stockmarket rose by 1% yesterday and the country's risk premium came back down below 800 points. President Lula da Silva claimed that the worst was now over and that the country had made a great step forward. 

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