The Argentine peso is soaring amid an unusual central-bank shake-up
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- The Argentine peso was up more than 1% versus the dollar Friday after the president of Argentina's central bank stepped down.
- Follow the Argentine peso in real time here.
The Argentine peso is climbing against the US dollar after a change in leadership at Argentina's central bank, which hasn't been able to prop up the country's flailing currency despite landing the biggest International Monetary Fund bailout in history.
The peso was up 1.15% versus the dollar at 10 a.m. ET. It had hit an all-time low last month at 24.0050 per dollar.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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