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Argentine shares lag on World Cup defeat

By Pan Pylas
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Argentine shares lag on World Cup defeat

LONDON (AP) — It’s not just Argentine soccer fans who woke up depressed following their nation’s 1-0 defeat to Germany in the World Cup final. Traders in Buenos Aires were also feeling blue.

Though Argentina’s main Merval index closed up 0.2 percent on Monday, it traded sharply lower for much of the session after the team succumbed to a late goal Sunday from German striker Mario Goetze in Rio de Janeiro.

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