Credit: REUTERS/AGUSTIN MARCARIANBUENOS AIRES, Oct 24 (Reuters) - Argentina's central bank auctioned $176 million in two foreign exchange market interventions on Thursday, traders said, as policymakers tried to stabilize the wobbly peso currency ahead of the Oct. 27 presidential election.
A third intervention was expected later in the day, traders said.
(Reporting by Jorge Otaola and Walter Bianchi, writing by Hugh Bronstein)
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