Argentina, which defaulted on its debt in July, will receive the first tranche of a multi-billion dollar currency swap operation with China’s central bank before the end of this year, the South American country’s La Nacion newspaper reported on Sunday.<\/p>\n
The swap will allow Argentina to bolster its foreign reserves or pay for Chinese imports with the yuan currency at a time weak export revenues and an ailing currency have put the Latin American nation’s foreign reserves under intense pressure.<\/p>\n
La Nacion said Argentina would receive yuan worth $1 billion by the end of 2014, the first payment of a loan worth a total $11 billion signed by Argentina’s President Cristina Fernandez and her Chinese counterpart in July.<\/p>\n
The daily newspaper said the presidents of the countries’ two central banks had met on the sidelines of a meeting in Switzerland, but did not say how it had obtained the information.<\/p>\n
Fernandez’s government has imposed stringent import and capital controls to safeguard the dwindling reserves, now at around eight-year lows, which it needs to pay its debts. <\/p>\n
Source: Reuters<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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