Tag: Argentina Central Bank

• Friday, July 18th 2025 - 10:43 UTC

  Moody's upgrades Argentina's rating with positive shifting

  

  Moody's has raised Argentina's foreign and local currency credit rating from Caa3 to Caa1, also shifting the outlook from “stable” to “positive.” This upgrade reflects Moody's view that Argentina's broad liberalization of exchange and capital controls, coupled with a new program with the International Monetary Fund (IMF), will improve the availability of foreign currency and ease pressure on external finances.

• Friday, January 17th 2025 - 09:15 UTC

  Argentina accepting other currencies besides pesos

  

  Effective Friday, Argentines will be allowed to fill out price tags in the currency of their choice (most likely US dollars), the Central Bank (BCRA) announced Thursday, in what has been regarded as a first step towards the dollarization of the economy, one of President Javier Milei's electoral promises.

• Sunday, October 1st 2023 - 10:25 UTC

  Argentine presidential candidate Milei: “Should we dollarize?” or rather “Why should we keep the peso?”

  

  Next 22 October a presidential election will take place in Argentina, South America's second-largest economy and three candidates are competing for the job, Sergio Massa, the incumbent, Patricia Bullrich, from the traditional opposition when two coalitions prevailed in the Argentine political system, and Javier Milei, a declared libertarian, economist, and if published Argentine opinion polls can be trusted, the front runner.

• Thursday, July 20th 2023 - 09:17 UTC

  Buenos Aires: “Blue” dollar keeps going up amid police raids

  

  Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) Wednesday sold US$ 130 million and 288 million yuan (around US$ 40 million) in a desperate move to keep the “blue” (a euphemism for “black market”) quotation from soaring any further after reaching AR$ 527 / US$ 1.

• Friday, May 26th 2023 - 09:07 UTC

  Argentina imposes more impediments to foreign trade; Central bank desperately short of US dollars

  

  Given the financial problems and shortage of foreign currency, on Wednesday, May 24, the leading shipping company MSC, followed by seven others, announced that, as from June, ‘freight collect’ will be charged for exports from Argentina, meaning that these charges will be billed to the party receiving a shipment, often called the consignee.

• Friday, March 17th 2023 - 08:48 UTC

  BCRA adjusts benchmark interest rate: 78% annually

  

  Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) Thursday decided to raise the benchmark interest rate by 300 basis points to 78% annually, it was announced in Buenos Aires the day after the INDEC said the Consumer Price Index for the month of February ad grew 6.6% for a year-on-year inflation of 102.5 %, the highest in the last 32 years.

• Monday, July 4th 2022 - 20:43 UTC

  No more foreign players for Argentine football clubs due to US dollar crisis

  

  Argentina's current economic crisis is taking its toll on football. Transactions involving foreign players who were about to be hired by local clubs have been put on hold after local clubs have been rendered unable to have access to the amount of US dollars needed for the deal to go through.

• Friday, February 18th 2022 - 10:25 UTC

  Argentina’s Central Bank raises interest rates amid growing inflation

  

  Argentina’s Central Bank (BCRA) Thursday increased interest rates to 42.5%, it was announced. The measure is consistent with recent talks between the Government of President Alberto Fernández and the International Monetary Fund (IMF).

• Wednesday, December 15th 2021 - 20:43 UTC

  Argentina might raise interest rates to keep US dollar at bay

  

  Argentina's Central Bank (BCRA) is considering raising the interest rate, in accordance with a suggestion from the International Monetary Fund (IMF), it was reported Wednesday in Buenos Aires.

• Friday, December 3rd 2021 - 18:42 UTC

  Savers withdraw US $ 400 million from Argentine accounts amid fears

  

  Argentine savers have withdrawn more than US $ 400 million from their bank accounts this week amid growing rumours that the Central Bank (BCRA) was considering a new “corralito”, like the one implemented exactly 20 years ago in the days leading up to the resignation of President Fernando de la Rúa.