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Bacchus4.0

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Sat Nov 7, 2015, 10:44 AM Nov 2015

Venezuela withdraws $460 mn from IMF

http://news.yahoo.com/venezuela-withdraws-460-mn-imf-025420503.html

Washington (AFP) - With its cash reserves in sharp decline, Venezuela withdrew $460 million from the International Monetary Fund last month in its third such operation this year.


The IMF website showed Friday that Venezuela exchanged part of its Special Drawing Rights -- an international reserve asset created by the IMF -- account at the Fund for greenbacks.

Some countries often buy SDRs to comply with their obligations at the IMF, and in other cases sell them for hard currency to raise their reserve level at home, the Fund said.

Venezuela depends almost exclusively on oil exports and has taken a big hit from a drop in crude prices. Its hard currency reserves have fallen 25 percent over the past year to $15.4 billion.
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Venezuela withdraws $460 mn from IMF (Original Post) Bacchus4.0 Nov 2015 OP
And the narco Diosdado wants Lorenzo Mendoza arrested for suggesting seeking help from the IMF Marksman_91 Nov 2015 #1
 

Marksman_91

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1. And the narco Diosdado wants Lorenzo Mendoza arrested for suggesting seeking help from the IMF
Sat Nov 7, 2015, 03:34 PM
Nov 2015

Again, another fine example of "integrity" under the Bolivarian Revolution. These guys are blatant hypocrites, and aren't ashamed to show it

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