Argentine Peso, Bonds Rebound After IMF Pledges ‘Full Support’

  • Peso rallies; still closes week with loss of more than 16%
  • IMF offering speeded-up loans in talks set to start Tuesday

A sign displaying U.S. dollar, euro, Brazilan real, and Chilean peso exchange rates hangs as people wait inside a currency exchange house in Buenos Aires, Argentina, on Thursday, Aug. 30, 2018.

Photographer: Erica Canepa/Bloomberg
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Argentina’s currency crisis eased on Friday as the peso rallied after the International Monetary Fund declared “full support” for a beleaguered government seeking to shore up public finances.

The peso gained 2 percent to 36.85 per dollar at the end of trading in Buenos Aires, and government bonds also pared declines.