Argentina, IMF restore regular checkups after decade

Argentina will resume annual fiscal checkups with the International Monetary Fund this year after a 10-year hiatus, an IMF official said Friday. Ties between the two hit rock-bottom when the IMF censured Buenos Aires in 2013 for not meeting an IMF requirement that members must provide reliable, basic economic statistics. "It looks like we are going to go for two weeks in September," said Nigel Chalk, the Fund's deputy director for the Americas.