BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Analysts polled by Argentina’s central bank forecast annual inflation this year at 149%, above the 126% expected in the previous poll, according to the monthly survey…
(Reuters) – Argentina’s economy ministry is analyzing the launch of a voluntary asset conversion operation, it said in a statement on Wednesday, aiming to bring some relief to ailing government…
By Anna-Catherine Brigida BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina will no longer require a prescription to obtain emergency contraception, commonly known as the ‘morning after pill’, the government said on Wednesday,…
(Reuters) – Uruguayan fintech dLocal, the South American country’s first unicorn, saw its shares plummet on Friday, after Argentine news outlet Infobae published an article saying the government was investigating…
By Walter Bianchi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina is in talks to renew and potentially expand its currency swap line with China, a central bank source said on Wednesday, as…
By Walter Bianchi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government is bolstering its economic defenses as it battles runaway inflation that hit 109% in April, fast draining central bank foreign currency…
By Andrea Shalal NIIGATA, Japan (Reuters) – Brazilian Finance Minister Fernando Haddad expressed serious concerns on Thursday that Argentina’s economic challenges and a major drought there could affect the country’s…
By Lucila Sigal BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina, known better for its Malbec than its mining, has its sights set on becoming a top ten copper producer by 2030, with…
By Bernardo Caram and Nicolás Misculin BRASILIA/BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina is seeking new easing of targets in its $44 billion deal with the International Monetary Fund and faster payouts,…
By Bernardo Caram BRASILIA (Reuters) – Argentina has offered to fast-track imports from Brazil if its neighbor adopts a new credit system that reduces its dependence on the dollar, which…
By Nicolás Misculin BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s three most recent presidents have bowed out of the October general election campaign, throwing the race wide open and the outcome in…
MEXICO CITY (Reuters) – Argentina is considering how to persuade the International Monetary Fund to further ease the economic targets embedded in the country’s $44 billion IMF loan program, a…
By Jorgelina do Rosario WASHINGTON (Reuters) -The Argentine government is in talks to issue two dollar-bonds for up to $600 million each with separate guarantees from the World Bank and…
By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina central bank board have been discussing the idea of another potential interest rate hike from the current 78% level, an adviser to…
By Hernan Nessi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s inflation rate is expected to have clocked in at an eight-month high of 7.1% in March, according to a Reuters poll of…
By Anna-Catherine Brigida and Walter Bianchi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina has patched up its wobbly economy with a so-called “soy dollar” preferential exchange rate to boost grains exports and…
By Anna-Catherine Brigida BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Crypto exchange Binance, which has been sued by U.S. regulators, said on Tuesday it is expanding services in inflation-hit Argentina, allowing users to…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Former Argentine President Mauricio Macri said on Sunday that he will not be a presidential candidate in the country’s October general elections, as the opposition coalition…
By Anna-Catherine Brigida BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – An Argentina court on Thursday convicted two men for the rape and murder of 16-year-old Lucia Perez in 2016, a case that has…
By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina ordered public sector bodies on Thursday to sell or exchange their holdings of 11 sovereign dollar bonds in a bid to reorganize…
By Walter Bianchi and Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s slow-and-steady currency devaluation plan is coming under rising pressure as a historic drought pummels exports of cash crops soy…
By Eliana Raszewski BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s government will push state entities to give up their foreign-law sovereign dollar bonds, an economy ministry official said on Tuesday, aiming to…
By Jorge Otaola BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s central bank board said it agreed to hike the country’s benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 78% on Thursday after…
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – The Argentine government on Thursday said annual inflation data registered in February, the highest since 1991, was “very bad,” but insisted that the 60% inflation rate…
By Hernan Nessi BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – Argentina’s annual inflation rate is expected to surge past 100% in February, a Reuters poll on Monday showed, underscoring the challenge for the…