impossible to buy gadgets that aren t collecting date. coca-cola says it is buying the world s second biggest coffee chain cost for over five billion dollars the british company has nearly four thousand coffeehouses in europe and china coke hopes costco will help to diversify its product range away from fizzy drinks coffee is one of the few drinks sectors where coca-cola does not yet have a strong global brand. and aggressive move by argentina s central bank to shore up the country s nosediving currency has had little effect on markets on thursday the lender hiked its bench mark interest rate from forty five to sixty percent but the peso has continued to plummet losing up to twenty percent against the dollar the latest panic began monday after born as i asked for early release of emergency support funds from the international monetary fund triggering concerns it