BUENOS AIRES: Argentina borrowed $16.5 billion on Tuesday (Wednesday in Manila) in its triumphant return to international credit markets 15 years after a disastrous default, the government said.

Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said Argentina raised billions more in sovereign bonds than it had planned in the country’s first debt auction since the default in 2001.

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