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Argentine debt risks: revisiting the crunch points

The rout in Argentine markets yesterday, and increasing likelihood of a lurch to the left in October’s presidential election, has rekindled sovereign default fears. One crunch point could be 15th September, when the next IMF loan tranche is due to be disbursed; the Fund could request a restructuring as a condition of this. Another crunch point could be large FX bond repayments due in Q2 of next year.

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