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Central Bank Keeps Buying Dollars as Official Exchange Rate Eases to One Thousand Five Hundred Fifteen Pesos

Argentina’s Central Bank absorbed another fifty-seven million dollars from the wholesale market as the official exchange rate eased to one thousand five hundred fifteen pesos at Banco Nación, with steady agricultural export liquidations supporting the bank’s foreign-currency purchases.
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