News of index

Argentina loses emerging market status on FX controls

25-06-2021 01:55 Argentine stocks were cut from emerging market status by index provider MSCI Inc on the country’s continued capital controls.

Brain drain

Is it time to leave or is Argentina worth it?

08-05-2021 00:06 Even more dangerous than outdated economics is the constant trench warfare that is Argentine politics, which begets disillusionment and feeds the brain drain.

by Agustino Fontevecchia

MARKETS

Argentina risks losing emerging markets status, warns MSCI

23-06-2020 23:27 Concern about market accessibility in Argentina prompted MSCI to flag the country during this year's 2020 rating review. Turkey was also warned.

Bloomberg - Opinion

Brazil hits a wall and takes Latin America with it

30-04-2020 17:38 Brazil’s president Jair Bolsonaro has just led his country, and indeed all of Latin America, to the end of a long cycle, as the coronavirus outbreak sparks a shadow over the continent’s future.

PRE-PANDEMIC

Economic activity contracted by 2.2% in February, says INDEC

28-04-2020 18:34 National statistics bureau reveals economy contracted by 2% in first two months of 2020, prior to the coronavirus-induced shutdown in economic activity.

Argentina's downturn

Merval slumps 14% amid virus fears, country risk soars above 4,000 points

18-03-2020 18:03 As global markets take huge hits, benchmark Merval index of Buenos Aires Stock Exchange plunges more than 14 percent; Country risk rose to 4,040 points, a height not seen since June 2005.

Price increases

Inflation in February came in at 2%, the lowest in two years

12-03-2020 17:16 Prices increases slow to slowest in the last two years, according to INDEC. Inflation in last 12 months now totals 50.3%.

ECONOMIC INDICATORS

Argentina's economy shrank by 0.9% in October, says INDEC

23-12-2019 17:40 Economy contracted by 2.3% in first 10 months of 2019, data from national statistics bureau shows.

News of index

Argentina loses emerging market status on FX controls

Is it time to leave or is Argentina worth it?

Argentina risks losing emerging markets status, warns MSCI

Brazil hits a wall and takes Latin America with it

Economic activity contracted by 2.2% in February, says INDEC

Merval slumps 14% amid virus fears, country risk soars above 4,000 points

Inflation in February came in at 2%, the lowest in two years

Argentina's economy shrank by 0.9% in October, says INDEC

US national security advisor set to visit Argentina, Brazil

Ex-model’s visits to presidential residence prompts legal complaint

Argentina makes US$334-million interest payment to IMF

IMF officially approves increased lending capacity

Fishing vessels illegally target marine mammals in South American waters

Florencia Peña: "Estoy pensando en demandar a Fernando Iglesias, esto fue demasiado lejos"

Toyota no consigue 200 personas con secundario completo para trabajar en su planta de Zárate

Piden que Fernando Iglesias sea excluido del Congreso por comentarios "misóginos"

Carlos Rottemberg: "Con Luis Brandoni también fuimos a Olivos a ver a Alberto Fernández"

Tragedia en Caseros: dos bomberos murieron en un incendio y otro se encuentra en grave estado