24 September 2009

Chavez Plans $5.7 Billion Bolivar Bonds Sale.

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Venezuela will sell as much as 12.15 billion bolivars ($5.7 billion) of bonds in the local market by year-end. The government will sell fixed and floating-rate securities that are ONLY tradable in the LOCAL market. With the bonds, Venezuela hopes to pull money out of circulation, decreasing demand for dollars that pushed the currency to a record low in the unregulated market this year.