There are media outlets reporting that Scott Bessant, the U.S. Treasury secretary, has outlined financial aid to that country that would total $40 billion. For more, let's bring in bloomberg's mike McKee. Mike.From what we understand, are there are conditions tied to this or there was strings attached to up to $40 billion of aid from the United States or Argentina. Well, the administration hasn't made a whole lot clear about any of this yet, Scarlett. We don't even know about the original $20 billion, wheth ...

There are reasons why women's football or women's sports have been somewhat behind uh than men's sports. There are a lot of key elements that would make any sport successful were not present. So for example, if you look at women's um teams, team sports, their training manuals are borrowed from men's training manuals.There's no independent training manuals designed and developed for women. Well, women's body is not the same as men. There's hormone, uh, nutrition, sleep, they all work differently.And women ar ...

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as we've seen now Secretary of Treasury Bessant first create a swap arrangement of $20 billion and then actually intervene in the currency markets uh last week. Uh you actually were there uh during the Mexican peso crisis back in 1994. Uh what can you tell us about when that makes sense and when it does not.I'm somebody who's a strong believer that the United States has to support global financial stability, that when countries face uh crisis involving a sudden loss of liquidity that there needs often to be ...

In a way, You know, in some sense, you know, it's also a correction. But insofar as volatility is concerned, without going into levels, are we in the Reserve Bank. We do not.You know, as I mentioned earlier, we do not you know, our stated policy is not to target any price level or any price band and let you know the markets actually in India are quite deep, quite wide and we have a very robust and a mature market. So we believe in you know, the markets are to decide, you know, what the level should be. We d ...

If the president doesn't win, I know the person that he'd be running against. I believe probably we probably have the person. A person is extremely far left and a philosophy that got Argentina into this problem in the first place.So we would not be generous with Argentina if that happened. If he loses, we are not going to be generous with Argentina. So we're going to work very much with the president. We think he's going to win. He should win.And if he does win, we're going to be very helpful. And if he doe ...

Overall, U.S. banks seem to be in pretty good shape. The same, it looks like, cannot be said if President M. J.of Argentina and his peso, as we see now, Secretary of Treasury bessant first create a swap arrangement of $20 billion and then actually intervene in the currency markets. Last week you actually were there during the Mexican peso crisis back in 1994. What can you tell us about when that makes sense and when it does not.I'm somebody who's a strong believer that the United States has to support globa ...

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