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Argentina’s Siderar Falls After Govt Slams Controller
By Eduardo Thomson and Pablo Gonzalez on September 07, 2012 Tweet Facebook LinkedIn Google Plus 0 Comments
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Siderar SAIC (ERAR), Argentina’s largest steel producer, fell the most in 10 months after the government threatened to push down prices in retaliation for criticism of the economy from the company’s controlling shareholder.
Siderar sank 5.2 percent to 1.27 pesos at the close in Buenos Aires, the biggest drop since November 2011. The Merval benchmark index slid 1 percent.
Argentina’s Planning Minister Julio de Vido criticized Paolo Rocca, chairman of Siderar’s controller Ternium SA, this week for saying that the country has lost competitiveness since 2008. Deputy Economy Minister Axel Kicillof told television show 678 late yesterday that the government should drive down the price of steel to bankrupt Rocca for his remarks, but it won’t do so, La Nacion reported today.
“The fall is obviously because of the argument with the government,” Ruben Pascuali, an analyst at Mayoral Bursatil, said by telephone from Buenos Aires. “There’s fear this may lead to some sort of intervention, maybe a cut in subsidies.”
Newspaper Clarin cited Rocca as saying Sept. 3 that there hasn’t been any real investment in Argentina since 2008 when the country’s competitiveness started to decline. Ternium SA (TX) owns 61 percent of Siderar. Rocca ranks 87th on the Bloomberg Billionaire list with an estimated net worth of $10 billion.
Siderar’s press office didn’t respond to an e-mailed request for comment. Jessica Rey, a spokeswoman for Kicillof, didn’t respond to a phone call seeking comment.
Argentina seized YPF SA (YPFD), the country’s largest oil company, from Spain’s Repsol SA in April after criticizing rising oil imports last year and lack of investment.
Expropriating Siderar is unlikely, Pascuali said.
“They can’t go nationalizing everything or else there won’t be anybody left to pay corporate tax,” Pascuali said.
To contact the reporters on this story: Eduardo Thomson in Santiago at ethomson1@bloomberg.net; Pablo Gonzalez in Buenos Aires at pgonzalez49@bloomberg.net
To contact the editor responsible for this story: David Papadopoulos at papadopoulos@bloomberg.net
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