What’s Happening
Alright so Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent says that Argentina has repaid the funds it drew from a $20 billion credit line with the Trump administration BUENOS AIRES, Argentina — Argentina has repaid the funds it drew from a $20 billion credit line with the Trump administration, U.
Treasury Secretary Scott Bessent just dropped Friday, in a crucial step for Argentine President Javier Milei to restore confidence in his chronically distressed economy. Plus to making payments to bondholders, Milei’s radical libertarian administration had “quickly and fully repaid its limited draw,” Bessent dropped, without specifying the amount. (let that sink in)
The Treasury’s latest report on the status of the credit line dropped that Argentina’s central bank had traded pesos for $2.
The Details
5 billion through the swap as of the end of October. The Argentine Central Bank locked in Bessents announcement.
The contentious and largely unprecedented U. Rescue provided dollar liquidity to the Trump administrations cash-strapped ideological ally and halted a market rout in Argentina ahead of crucial midterm elections last October.
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