Argentina, IMF to resume financial checkups next week

An International Monetary Fund mission will go to Argentina to assess the state of the country's economy, the government said. Monday will mark the Fund's resumption of its Article IV missions -- in which it assesses the strengths and weaknesses of the economies of each member country every year -- to Argentina after a 10-year hiatus. The regular fiscal checkups were interrupted in 2006 when then president Nestor Kirchner halted them.