News of sales

Milei tells farmers to sell soy now as peso slides 12%

14-04-2025 19:08 Farmers are starting to harvest their soy crop, worth billions of dollars in export revenues that Milei desperately needs at the Central Bank. But, so far, they have traded it at a crawl.

AGRICULTURE & ECONOMY

Argentina seeks its first wheat shipments to China in decades

30-11-2024 09:14 Argentina wheat traders are seeking to close their first significant sales to China since the 1990s, according to the head of the country’s top crop-exporting group.

ECONOMY – ANALYSIS

Milei gets vote of confidence in wave of Argentine debt sales

15-10-2024 11:22 Argentina’s largest companies are rushing to issue dollar debt, a tentative sign that Javier Milei’s shock therapy is starting to restore investor confidence.

FINANCE & BUSINESS

MercadoLibre posts record Argentina sales amid consumer rebound

09-10-2024 13:27 MercadoLibre says it’s seeing signs of a consumption rebound in Argentina after a difficult start to the year.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Sales down 3.5% in February as consumption continues to fall

25-03-2024 17:48 Data supplied by the CAC Chamber of Commerce and services exposes continuing fall in consumer spending.

AGRICULTURE & ECONOMY

Milei’s policy moves seen boosting Argentina's wheat crop by 60%

12-12-2023 17:50 The arrival of Javier Milei to the Presidency is setting up the prospect of rapidly expanding wheat production in Argentina.

AGRICULTURE & ECONOMY

Argentina set to double wheat sales to Brazil on rebounding crop

07-12-2023 21:00 Argentina is poised to more than double its shipments of wheat to Brazil, displacing competitors including Russia in the key global agriculture market.

DEVALUATION FEARS

Currency fears stall sales of toilet paper, car parts

19-10-2023 13:19 Some firms suspend sales ahead of Sunday's presidential election; Fears of another devaluation are running high as the October 22 vote nears.

DOLLARS & RESERVES

Government's bid to bring in dollars stumbles as peso falls faster

20-04-2023 15:09 Soybean exporters, who are temporarily allowed to sell dollars at a rate of 300 pesos per dollar compared to the official rate at 218, didn’t sell a single greenback Wednesday – the first day of no sales since the policy kicked in.