Overview
- The government will pay roughly $822–850 million in IMF interest on Monday, a non‑deferrable charge shifted from November 1 to the next business day.
- With no immediate IMF inflow to offset it, the outlay will be met using Central Bank reserves, which stood near $40.5 billion gross as of Thursday.
- Consultancies estimate net reserves under the IMF metric at roughly $10–11.6 billion in the red, underscoring tight external liquidity.
- November foreign‑currency maturities add pressure, totaling at least about $1.0 billion with multilaterals, while some analysts put the month’s obligations near $2.0 billion.
- Analysts say Argentina is off the reprogrammed reserve‑accumulation path and would need about $9.5 billion to reach the next target of negative $3.5 billion.