News of street

JP Morgan in power: Six of Milei’s top officials have history with bank

28-10-2025 16:43 President Javier Milei has placed six ex-JPMorgan employees in key positions, from the Economy Ministry to the Foreign Ministry. His government's alignment with Wall Street has given rise to criticism that he is giving too much focus to financial interests.

MARKETS

Wall Street is wary of being burned by the ‘Milei trade’ again

24-10-2025 15:22 Global investors engaged in the "Milei trade" are bracing for another potential hit in the wake of this Sunday's legislative elections.

MARKETS

Wall Street skips Argentina bond and M&A rally loved by locals

13-11-2024 14:34 Government bonds are up 151% since Javier Milei won last year’s presidential election, but the foreign share of holdings is down.

PRESIDENTIAL MEETING

As demonstrators protest education cuts, Milei meets with ‘Wolf of Wall Street’

02-10-2024 23:05 President Javier Milei meets Jordan Belfort, the former stockbroker better known as 'The Wolf of Wall Street,' who became wealthy before being jailed for fraud and stock manipulation.

EDITORIAL

The Wall Street shuffle

28-09-2024 06:27 Milei doubtless imagined that he was ringing his own Liberty Bell but it was also a self-excommunication from the international community which might well send alarm-bells ringing, not least among Wall Street investors.

MILEI IN NEW YORK

Milei lays out clearer currency path as his popularity begins to dip

24-09-2024 11:05 In his Wall Street debut, Javier Milei tells investors at the New York Stock Exchange that currency restrictions will be lifted “when the rate of inflation in the macroeconomic programme is zero.”

MILEI IN AMERICA

Milei in New York: Ringing the Wall Street bell, Elon Musk meet

23-09-2024 13:20 President Javier Milei delivers a speech to traders and invited guests at Wall Street ahead of eagerly awaited address to the United Nations General Assembly later today.

UNITED STATES ELECTION 2024

Paul Singer is pitching Wall Street's own brand of MAGA

25-06-2024 12:06 Over the past decade, business figures led by hedge-fund billionaire Paul Singer have poured nearly US$200 million into a New York think tank that’s now projecting its own vision for Trump’s America.

Brazil and Wall Street

Lula pulls off rare trick twice, wooing Wall Street and the poor

26-02-2024 11:09 In his first year back in power, Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva has again managed to keep both low-income voters and Wall Street investors happy

GUEST VOICE

Protest and circulation – a clash of two worlds

19-12-2023 21:52 The right to demonstrate and move freely are on a collision course in Argentina. Not to be taken as something natural. But the way out must inevitably be via dialogue.

POLITICS

Government says it will take away welfare from protesters who block streets

18-12-2023 17:54 Argentina's government warns against street blockades on eve of major demonstration; Human Capital Minister Sandra Pettovello warns that those who participate and receive welfare support will have it taken away from them.