MercoPress. South Atlantic News Agency
Argentina will honor payments this week of bonds totaling some US$ 850 million
The Argentine government announced that this week it will honor payments of some US$ 850 million, which correspond to two different sovereign bonds, one of them a century maturing bond issued in 2017 during the administration of ex-president Mauricio Macri.
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