News of dollars

Argentina tightens capital controls ahead of midterm elections

13-08-2021 14:11 Regulators tighten screws on so-called blue-chip operations, where investors buy assets in pesos and sell them abroad in dollars to obtain foreign currency.

Central Bank sells dollars for first time since April

03-08-2021 14:53 Central Bank sells greenbacks for the first time in three months, amid electoral nervousness and high inflation.

Fernández: Currency market is messy, it needs order

11-10-2020 17:22 In the wide-ranging interview with El Cohete a la Luna, president says Argentina's currency market is messy and must be “ordered.”

Currency controls hit private companies in Argentina

10-10-2020 10:11 Capital controls were already a headache for private companies, but more drastic measures obliging firms to restructure their debts has delivered an even harder blow.

Pesce, Guzmán split over curbs on dollar purchases

17-09-2020 16:19 Argentina's economic team split on latest crackdown, as well as how long new rules should remain in place.

YPF leads Argentina corporate bond rout on new forex limits

16-09-2020 23:27 Corporate bonds from Argentina posted their biggest decline in six months on Wednesday as a new round of capital controls and government restrictions on access to dollars threatened to provoke a wave of defaults.

Vicentin’s expropriation and how to break bad news

20-06-2020 09:26 A Peronist expropriation, and maybe even nationalisation, sounds like the best way to burn a lot of money straight into inefficient bureaucracy and corruption.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Just seven properties were sold in Buenos Aires City in April

27-05-2020 15:05 Just seven properties were sold in the capital last month amid the coronavirus lockdown – a 99.7 percent drop in comparison with the same month last year.

Trump tells Chevron to ‘wind down’ oil fields in Venezuela

23-04-2020 12:48 The Trump administration on Tuesday ordered Chevron Corp. to "wind down" operations in Venezuela by December 1, barring the California-based oil giant in the meantime from drilling or exporting, as the US increases pressure on President Nicolás Maduro to give up power.

Money is losing its meaning amid coronavirus pandemic

16-04-2020 15:32 Saving the global economy from the coronavirus pandemic is going to cost a lot of money. The sums involved are so large that they no longer have any meaning; they are simply abstractions.

Dollars under the mattress: Argentina's preferred way of saving

01-03-2020 20:15 Hit it by decades of inflation, recessions and cyclical devaluations, many Argentines prefer to take refuge in the dollar as a way of saving and hide their money "under the mattress."

Average wage fell 44.3% in dollar terms under Macri government, says study

20-02-2020 07:30 New report finds there has been a collapse of the average income in dollar terms since 2015, dropping from US$1,385 to just US$771 in four years.

Lammens eyes European, Chinese tourists in bid to boost economy

23-01-2020 07:19 The government is keen to attract foreign tourism, says new Tourism & Sports minister in interview, who hopes overseas visitors will be bringing more than US$6 billion into the economy by end of 2020.

Central Bank sells dollars for first time since October 27 election

21-01-2020 09:27 Decree published in the Official Gazette confirms economist Sergio Woyecheszen as the Central Bank's vice-president, serving until September 23, 2022, subject to approval in the Senate.

Government confirms 30% charge on overseas purchases coming

16-12-2019 07:05 Argentina will return to a “tourist dollar” policy, under which foreign transactions face a 30% surcharge over the official rate, Cabinet Chief Santiago Cafiero confirms.

Kicillof says Buenos Aires Province can't afford to pay debts

11-12-2019 17:14 “As Alberto said, if we don’t grow, we can’t pay,” says new governor. “We’ll get in touch with bondholders immediately and establish a dialogue to find a solution to this problem.”

Fernández tells Argentines he will protect their savings and dollar deposits

23-10-2019 13:53 Presidential frontrunner asks markets and Argentina to "be calm," promising not to raid personal savings should financial turbulence hit country post-election.