Argentina pushes interest rates to 40% to defend the peso
by Nick Fletcher from Economics | The Guardian on (#3PDQX)
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Argentina's central bank raised the country's interest rates to 40% on Friday, the third hefty increase in eight days in a continuing attempt to defend the slumping peso and put a lid on soaraway inflation.
On Thursday the bank lifted borrowing costs from 30.25% to 33.25%, having already raised them from 27.25% on 27 April.
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