Argentina to plunder central bank to pay off debt

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Buenos Aires plans to dip into the central bank's coffers to repay bondholders, it emerged on Monday.

Argentina's Ministry for Economy and Public Finance on Monday announced the creation of a vehicle to repay government debt funded by 37% of the central bank's "surplus" reserves. The central bank had $47.5 billion in reserves as of early December.

Amado Boudou, the minister for economy and public finance, said the fund would reassure investors that the government would repay all $6.6 billion of

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