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Article: Brazilian Stocks Sink on Scandal Concerns
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- June 15, 2005
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ALAN CLENDENNING, AP Business Writer
AP Online
06-15-2005
Dateline: SAO PAULO, Brazil
Investors dumped Brazilian stocks Wednesday amid continuing jitters over the impact of a bribes-for-votes political scandal that has shaken the market-friendly administration of President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva.
Shares on the benchmark Bovespa index fell more than 3 percent in intraday trading, erasing most of Tuesday's 3.4 percent gain, and closed down 1 percent.
The losses came a day after testimony by Rep. Roberto Jefferson in Congress on his accusations that Silva's governing Workers Party paid off opposition congressmen to secure support for the party's legislative agenda.
Jefferson, who leads ...