USA: VENEZUELAN PRESIDENT RINGS CLOSING BELL AT NYSE

Описание: (10 Jun 1999) Natural Sound
Venezuelan President, Hugo Chavez, wrapped up his visit to New York ringing the closing bell at the New York Stock Exchange.
Chavez has been in the U-S for two days. during which time he addressed Latin American leaders met U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan.
On his second official visit to the U-S since being elected late last year, Hugo Chavez visited the financial core of the country.
The Venezuelan President, who also met U-N Secretary General Kofi Annan during this visit, finished the day ringing the bell in the N-Y-S-E.
Chavez has been talking to businessmen about the current political and economic state of affairs in Venezuela to encourage foreign investment in the country.
He has repeatedly emphasised the implementation of new democratic reforms in many areas.
Stocks fell on Thursday as good economic news for Japan increased Wall Street's fears that the unfettered growth of the U-S economy will prompt the Federal Reserve to raise interest rates.
At the close of trading, the Dow Jones industrial average was down 69.02 points, or by 0.6 per cent, at 10,621.27.
The blue-chip index, down as much as 164 points earlier in the session, began marching back in the last hour of trading.

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