News of economic activity

Economic activity fell 3.7% in November year-on-year

27-01-2021 10:35 INDEC says activity contracted by 10.6% in first 11 months of 2020, but registered a 1.4 percent rise in November from previous month.

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Economic activity contracted 7.4% in October year-on-year

24-12-2020 02:47 Economic activity contracted by 11.3% in the first 10 months of 2020, compared to the previous year, the INDEC national statistics bureau reports.

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Economic activity shrank 6.9% in September year-on-year

24-11-2020 19:12 New data from INDEC national statistics bureau shows economic activity has declined 11.9% since the turn of the year.

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Economic activity slumped 12.6% in first seven months of 2020

29-09-2020 00:23 New data from INDEC national statistics bureau shows economic activity fell 13.2 percent in July, compared to the same month of previous year.

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Economic recovery falters amid tighter lockdown rules

28-09-2020 17:41 Economic activity fell 13.2% in July year-on-year, worse than most estimates, while rising 1.1% from a month earlier.

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Argentina's GDP slumped 19.1% in second quarter of 2020

22-09-2020 17:30 INDEC says economy posted sharpest quarterly contraction in recent history, though still narrowly beating economists’ forecasts.

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Stark economic data underlines pandemic's impact on Argentina's economy

21-08-2020 14:02 Economic activity slumped 12.9% in the first half of 2020 year-on-year, INDEC reveals. Yet rebound is beginning amid coronavirus lockdown.

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Argentina's economy extends rebound from pandemic lows

21-08-2020 00:32 Economy continues to show early signs of recovery after a strict Covid-19 lockdown brought commerce to a dramatic halt.

BLOOMBERG

Economy plunges more than expected after lockdown

29-06-2020 23:10 Economic activity fell 17.5% in April from the previous month, and 26.4% from a year ago, the government reported Monday.

Coronavirus pandemic

First anti-lockdown protest takes place in Buenos Aires

26-05-2020 15:41 Around 150 demonstrators rallied at the Plaza de Mayo on the 25 de Mayo holiday, protesting the lockdown introduced to tackle the coronavirus pandemic and the halt in economic activity.

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Economic activity fell 11.5% in March as lockdown kicked in

20-05-2020 18:12 INDEC national statistics bureau reveals economy contracted by 11.5% in March, as lockdown kicked in. Experts anticipate that April's data will be even worse.

EDITORIAL

Throwing stones from a glass house?

16-05-2020 08:57 The institutional monstrosity of allowing governments to choose anti-corruption officials entirely in the presidential (or vice-presidential) pocket puts both sides on the same sordid level.

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Economic activity dropped 3.8% in August year-on-year

24-10-2019 21:00 The World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) recently predicted that Argentina's gross domestic product would decline by 3.1% in 2019.

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Economy stagnated in June, with activity down 2.6% in first half of 2019

22-08-2019 19:29 Data from the INDEC national statistics bureau on Thursday indicated that economic activity in Argentina did not alter in June with respect to the same month the previous year.