Angola Explores IMF Financing as Bond Yields Soar on Oil Slump
Angola held talks with the International Monetary Fund last week about possible financing packages, its finance minister said, as trade wars and a slump in energy prices effectively shut the oil producer out of international bond markets.
'We didn't ask it formally — we were just trying to understand and explore what financial options we can have,' Finance Minister Vera Daves de Sousa said in an interview on Friday in Washington, where she was attending the IMF-World Bank Spring Meetings.
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