(Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s central bank plans to overhaul its crawling peg regime by devaluing the peso 2% per month, according to a senior government official with direct knowledge of the decision. 

Economy Minister Luis Caputo announced Tuesday in a televised address that the government was devaluing the peso 54% in the first batch of emergency measures of President Javier Milei’s shock therapy program. 

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