MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentina will pay bonds maturing in September with Central bank reserves
According to the Central bank Argentine sovereign debt has dropped to 13% of GDP Argentina's central bank approved on Thursday the use of 2.5 billion dollars to pay public debt through the rest of 2013, a move that will further diminish reserves already stretched by heavy state spending ahead of the October midterm election.
Most of the funds, 2.2bn dollars will be used to cancel the Bonar bond which matures next September.
In a brief release explaining the latest operation, the Central bank said that since the implementation of the debt-lowering policy, ‘sovereign debt in the hands of private holders has dropped from 105% of GDP in 2003 to 13% in 2013”.
Argentina has been cut off from the international bond market since its catastrophic 2002 sovereign default and manages to operate with a trade surplus mostly from soy and corn exports.
But public spending has outpaced revenue as the Oct. 27 congressional election approaches.
Central bank reserves at the beginning of the week were about 37 billion, down from 45 billion a year ago.
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Read all commentsArgentine version of Q easing?
Aug 16th, 2013 - 03:43 am 0Good or bad?
Please discuss!
I have trouble believing the 13% when I don't trust INDEC's statistics that tell us how much growth and inflation is.
Aug 16th, 2013 - 04:51 am 0Argentina's GDP is overstated and so its debt as a percentage of GDP is understated.
http://blogs.ft.com/beyond-brics/2013/02/22/argentina-lies-damned-lies-and-statistics/#axzz2c7VvFj6C
Have they included the debt to the Paris Club ?
Aug 16th, 2013 - 07:16 am 0Cristina did promise payment of this debt in 2008!
http://www.atfa.org/the-paris-club-will-lay-claim-to-argentinas-debt-today/
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