News of currency crisis

IMF authorises US$4.7 billion loan tranche, says Milei will remove currency controls

01-02-2024 18:25 International Monetary Fund signs off on fresh loan disbursement and reveals Argentina will lift currency controls this year – though it warns political and social unrest may lie ahead.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Recession, inflation, devaluation: Economic troubles in 5 charts

19-10-2023 13:46 Argentina’s next president will take over in the middle of a financial emergency — which is par for the course in one of the world’s most dysfunctional economies.

CAMPAIGN COMMENTS

Out of the pink (house) and into the blue

29-04-2023 06:55 In a country where the urgent almost invariably displaces the important, Alberto Fernández’s premature entry into “lame duck” status has had immediate consequences.

by Michael Soltys

EDITORIAL

Bucking the trend or a new weight for the peso?

29-04-2023 05:41 The giddy oscillations of parallel exchange rates and the relentless acceleration of prices are moving too fast to leave any margin for gradualism, thus making shock treatment inevitable.

EDITORIAL

Biting (or braving) the bullet

19-08-2022 13:24 The renunciation of populist utility bill freezes should be hailed. The Frente de Todos government is at least knocking on the door of the real world even if it has yet to make an entrance.

EDITORIAL

Credibility gap the widest of all

13-08-2022 06:52 Massa is widely assumed to model his ambitions on Brazil’s Fernando Henrique Cardoso but even subordinating all else to that goal does not automatically make his policies more predictable.

Currency crisis

The fateful 30th month of the Fernández-Fernández administration

02-07-2022 07:00 President Alberto Fernández has been hit by a crippling run on the peso that has stretched out over several weeks during the 30th month of his Presidency, as an exhausted economic model has failed to generate confidence and Central Bank reserves.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

EDITORIAL

Muddling and meddling in the middle of the year

02-07-2022 07:00 If 1974 saw the death of the founder of the Peronist movement 48 years ago yesterday, the current head is looking hardly more alive politically – and far more nominal in his authority.

LIVING WITH CRISIS

Argentina remains hooked on ‘dollar-dependence’

30-06-2022 00:37 Argentines do their accounts in dollars, traumatised by recurrent economic crises and tormented by the inflation that is eating away at their pockets and is projected to exceed 60% this year.

News of currency crisis

IMF authorises US$4.7 billion loan tranche, says Milei will remove currency controls

Recession, inflation, devaluation: Economic troubles in 5 charts

Out of the pink (house) and into the blue

Bucking the trend or a new weight for the peso?

Biting (or braving) the bullet

Credibility gap the widest of all

The fateful 30th month of the Fernández-Fernández administration

Muddling and meddling in the middle of the year

Argentina remains hooked on ‘dollar-dependence’

Javier Milei sparks wild rally that makes peso number one in the world

Argentine firms refuse to refuel Cuban state airline’s planes

Argentina, 17 other nations to call on Hamas to release Israeli hostages

Argentina’s Central Bank lowers key rate to 60%

Milei’s team sees Argentina's inflation slowing faster than economist survey

Ley ómnibus: el oficialismo aceptó cambios en la reforma laboral y debaten en comisión

Un juicio en Nueva York reflotó presuntos “pactos de gobernabilidad” de las pandillas con Nayib Bukele

Las imágenes del operativo de limpieza de Jorge Macri que causaron polémica por el desalojo de gente en situación de calle

Una automotriz apuesta por la recuperación y anuncia la primera gran inversión en la era Milei

“Bebé reno”: qué pasó con Martha en la vida real y dónde está ahora