Argentine Interior Minister Florencio Randazzo announced Tuesday the final voting results of the primary elections that took place last August 14th, with President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner leading the presidential race by a 50.24% of the votes.
Exxon Mobil Corp, the largest US oil company, will spend as much as 76.3 million dollars to explore and develop shale oil and natural gas in Argentina with Americas Petrogas Inc.
A couple from Argentina salvaged hometown honour Tuesday night by winning the stage tango category on the closing day of the World Tango Championships in Buenos Aires.
United States and the European Union “are using the same recipe that the IMF applied on Argentina” to address the current global financial crisis and this only leads to “stagnation” said Nobel laureate Joseph Stiglitz attending a gathering of Nobel Prize recipients and young economists in Lindau, Germany.
Argentina's 2012 budget bill aims to cap public spending growth at 20%, below current rates of more than 35%, as state expenditure surges ahead of the October presidential election, according to a newspaper report on Monday.
Argentina’s securities regulator said it will investigate the chairman and chief executive officer of YPF SA, the nation’s largest oil producer, as part of a probe into the company’s accounting.
A close ally of President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, Tucuman province governor Jose Alperovich won on Sunday a landslide third straight mandate and his first words were of gratitude and remembrance for Nestor Kirchner.
Buenos Aires City Mayor, Mauricio Macri, admitted on Monday that it is “almost impossible” to beat President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner in October’s presidential elections.
Following the agreement which raised the Argentine minimum wage by 25%, equivalent to 549 dollars per month, business leaders and representatives from the labour unions admitted that when it comes to salaries negotiations the official inflation index from the government statistics office, Indec, “is not taken into account”.
The Argentine automobile industry will expand its production capacity to a million units annually by 2012 following on the expected record production of 840.000 this year boosted by domestic demand and exports to brazil, said Anibal Borderes president of the country’s Automobile Manufacturers Association, Adefa.