News of outlook

Goldman says end of Argentina FX controls key to reviving IPOs

25-03-2025 12:20 President Milei needs to start getting rid of capital and currency controls to lure equity investors, according to Goldman Sachs.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

IMF projects strong economic growth for Milei's Argentina in 2025

17-01-2025 18:59 International Monetary Fund estimates that Argentina’s economy contracted by 2.8% last year, but projects five percent growth in the coming two years.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

IMF casts doubt over Milei administration’s inflation estimate

22-10-2024 12:38 The International Monetary Fund estimates Argentina’s inflation rate in 2025 will hit 45%, a significant variation from the 18% projected by Javier Milei’s government in its budget bill.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

OECD forecasts Argentina's economy will contract 4% this year

25-09-2024 08:53 OECD experts worsen forecast for Argentina's economy, predicting GDP contraction of 4% this year and annual inflation of 147.5%.

IMF ANALYSIS

Argentina to move real rates to positive territory, IMF says

17-06-2024 14:57 IMF expects Argentina to take real interest rates into positive territory and ease currency controls in coming months.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

IMF downgrades Argentina's economic outlook for 2024

17-06-2024 12:39 International Monetary Fund downgrades estimate, forecasting that the economy will contract by 3.5% this year.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

ECLAC forecasts 3.1% decline for Argentina’s economy this year

09-05-2024 17:56 Argentina growth forecast revised downwards by United Nations body, while regional outlook is improved.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Milei’s team sees inflation slowing faster than economist survey

24-04-2024 12:04 President Javier Milei’s economic team sees monthly inflation slowing much faster this year than analysts anticipate.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

IMF ups global growth forecast but signals medium-term pessimism

16-04-2024 13:25 International Monetary Fund slightly raises outlook for global growth this year to 3.2%; Multilateral lenders reiterates forecast that Argentina's GDP will fall by 2.8% and that inflation in 2024 will be 150%.

BLOOMBERG – ANALYSIS

Milei races against time to ease pain unleashed by shock therapy

03-04-2024 12:03 Argentina’s president, who won last November’s run-off with 56% of the vote, is in a race against time to bring inflation back down and hold on to that popularity.

DOLLARISATION ON THE CARDS?

Milei doesn’t see Argentina dollarising before midterm vote

01-04-2024 09:33 “I don’t think we’ll get there before next year’s mid-term elections," declares president in TV interview with CNN en Español.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

IMF cuts Argentina 2024 growth forecast, forecasts 2.8% contraction

30-01-2024 15:55 Multilateral lender warns that inflation is expected to increase in the short term, projecting growth of minus 2.8 percent this year and plus five percent in 2025.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Latin America’s biggest economies see unemployment tick down

30-11-2023 13:42 Unemployment rates in Brazil and Mexico fell in October, as strong labour markets underpin the outperformance of Latin America’s largest economies.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

OECD: Argentina should think about ‘effectiveness of its social spending’

29-11-2023 12:22 OECD warns Argentina to assess "effectiveness of social spending" as it issues gloomy forecast for economy over next two years.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

Economy sputters toward recession as Milei takes reins

23-11-2023 14:42 Argentina’s economy stalled after an August devaluation of the official peso rate, further llustrating the challenges ahead for the president-elect.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

‘First six months of 2024 are going to be terrible,’ says Argentine business leader

15-11-2023 22:41 Head of Cámara Argentina de Comercio offers ominous forecast for next government’s initial months in office and warns politicians must “do things properly" in what looks to be a “complex” year ahead.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Central Bank: Inflation averaged 12% in August, September

09-10-2023 21:10 Argentina’s monthly inflation rate averaged 12% in August and September, according to the Central Bank’s monthly monetary policy report.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

World Bank sceptical over Milei’s dollarisation plans

05-10-2023 00:45 Argentina’s economy is set to contract 2.5% in 2023, according to the World Bank.

ECONOMIC OUTLOOK

World Bank sees Latin America lagging rest of the world — again

04-10-2023 18:43 Latin America is once again on track to grow more slowly than the rest of the world, with the regional economy set to underperform those of South Asia and even war-battered Eastern Europe this year, according to a new World Bank report.