News of bonds

Milei scores win with US$1-billion repo from five top banks

05-01-2025 09:47 Milei administration announces US$1-billion repurchase agreement with five international lenders that will help replenish foreign reserves at its Central Bank.

Creditors agree to restructuring for Argentina’s Clisa

18-12-2024 14:34 Creditors agree to debt rework with Clisa, holding company behind Buenos Aires metro company operators.

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.

Pimco, Barings question how soon Argentina can sell bonds again

08-10-2024 13:04 Economy Minister Luis Caputo told investors recently that the government expects to sell bonds abroad again by January 2026. For asset managers, however, that's a long shot.

City officials to meet investors as Buenos Aires weighs global bond sale

02-05-2024 16:40 Officials from Buenos Aires City government will meet with global investors next week as it explores selling overseas dollar bonds for the first time in eight years.

Caputo speech at JPMorgan event helps propel Argentine bonds

18-04-2024 13:18 Argentina won’t lift capital controls until international reserves are high enough to safeguard against a potential currency run, Luis Caputo tells investors.

Argentina bonds gain as Milei’s rework passes crucial tests

13-01-2024 08:58 Javier Milei capped his first month as president by winning approval from markets, providing a lift for his broader plans to overhaul Argentina’s economy.  

YPF offers to buy back bonds due in April

05-01-2024 13:47 State-run oil producer YPF SA launches offer to buy back some of dollar bonds due later this year in a bid to reduce short-term debt. 

Wall Street welcomes Milei victory but warns of challenges ahead

20-11-2023 14:29 Analysts and investors welcome the prospect of radical change in Argentina but warn about deep challenges facing Javier Milei.

Argentina investors cheer Milei victory, brace for peso sell-off

20-11-2023 00:37 Investors cheered libertarian economist Javier Milei’s bigger-than-expected win in Sunday’s presidential vote and his pledge to usher in a radical remake of South America’s second-largest economy.

Argentines’ love of dollars creates a windfall for local brokers

02-10-2023 16:53 Argentina’s economic disaster has sent inflation soaring and pushed poverty levels toward a 15-year high. But for local brokerages, the chaos has fuelled a boom unlike anything industry veterans can remember.

Argentina investors see rally in YPF bonds running out of steam

21-09-2023 23:07 Investors saying it’s time to sell bonds from Argentina’s state-run oil driller YPF SA ahead of the presidential elections in October.

Investors say Massa optimism offers brief respite

27-06-2023 08:53 Argentine bonds among biggest gainers in emerging markets after the ruling Peronist bloc coalesced around Economy Minister Sergio Massa.

Government hails ‘historic’ seven-trillion-peso debt swap

09-06-2023 20:47 Just under 78 percent of creditors sign up to voluntary debt swap, a measure President Alberto Fernández’s administration described as “very successful.”

Argentina loses US$1.5-billion UK case over GDP-linked bonds

05-04-2023 10:47 Argentina must compensate investors for losses in the country’s growth-linked securities after the nation changed the method of calculating gross domestic product, a London court ruled.

Massa on fire

25-03-2023 05:01 It’s been clear for some time now that Massa’s plan to resist through Peronist gradualism could reach a limit in terms of how many sources of fresh funds he’ll be able to conjure up.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

Government obliges state bodies to convert dollar bonds into pesos

22-03-2023 17:00 State entities are to sell their dollar bonds on the market in return for peso debt bonds issued by the Treasury with the aim of taming surges in the CCL and MEP parallel but legal exchange rates.

Bonds slide after government orders public sector sale

22-03-2023 12:17 Argentina’s sovereign-risk spread over US Treasuries widened as many as 126 basis points on Wednesday to almost 2,500, its widest in four months.