Argentine Finance Secretary Guillermo Nielsen on Friday said his country could return to international bond markets "sooner that most people expect" amid healthy appetite for the country's debt. "Argentina could go to market sooner than most people expect because there's an appetite for Argentine debt," Nielsen told reporters at an emerging markets conference in Miami, without giving any specific timing. This month for the first time since a massive sovereign debt default, Argentina issued 1 billion pesos ($344.9 million) of new paper, receiving 2.1 billion pesos in bids, with demand especially strong from local banks and some from international ones.

Copyright Reuters, 2005

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