Argentine bond swap dashes hopes of a quick end to debt dispute

The Argentine government’s plan to swap exchange bonds into local law, if successful, may enable the authorities to exit the current default and limit any damage to the real economy from the debt crisis. At the same time, however, it makes a settlement with holdouts unlikely before 2016 at the earliest.

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