Time to buy? Argentina's bargain basement stocks start to gain appeal
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BUENOS AIRES/NEW YORK (Reuters) - Argentina's stocks, which crashed last month to multi-year lows, are starting to lure in hardy investors tempted by bargain basement prices, even as the country teeters on the brink of default ahead of a general election next month.The country's main stock index lost almost half its value in the weeks after a shock Aug. 11 primary election defeat dealt a crushing blow to market-friendly conservative President Mauricio Macri and also roiled the country's debt..