Economy

• 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.

• Wednesday, July 19th 2023 - 10:38 UTC

  Argentine team starts talks with IMF toward new deal

  

  Argentina's Economic Policy Secretary Adolfo Rubinstein; Chief Advisor Leonardo Madcur; and Central Bank (BCRA) Vice-President Lisandro Cleri started Tuesday in Washington DC a new round of negotiations with a technical team of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) to finalize a new agreement ahead of this year's presidential elections, it was confirmed by an IMF spokesperson.

• Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 22:46 UTC

  Lacalle Pou urges swift action on EU-Mercosur Agreement: “Enough of 25 years of negotiations”

  

  In a strong plea for progress on the Free Trade Agreement between the European Union and Mercosur, Uruguayan President Luis Lacalle Pou demanded an end to decades of fruitless negotiations, urging the involved parties to reach an agreement.

• Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 10:30 UTC

  Growing concern in China over urban areas youth (16 to 24 years) unemployment

  

  The jobless rate of 16 to 24 year olds in Chinese urban areas rose to 21.3% last month, official figures released by Beijing show. It comes as the world's second largest economy grew just 0.8% in the three months to the end of June.

• Tuesday, July 18th 2023 - 09:34 UTC

  Brazil's 2022/23 harvest is expected to reach 317,5 million tons with a planted area of 78,2 million hectares

  

  Brazil is expected to harvest a record 317.5 million tons of grains in the 2022-23 agriculture cycle, which is 44.9 million tons (16.5%) more than the previous year, according to the 10th Grain Harvest Survey by Conab, the country’s food supply and statistics agency.

• Monday, July 17th 2023 - 11:41 UTC

  UK signs trade treaty to join Trans Pacific partnership, 'the world's fastest growing region'

  

  The United Kingdom on Sunday formally signed a treaty to join a major Indo/Pacific block, in what is described as the biggest trade deal since the country left the European Union, (Brexit) at the beginning of 2020.

• Monday, July 17th 2023 - 11:30 UTC

  Massa might have to travel to US to finalize deal with IMF

  

  Argentine Economy Minister and presidential contender Sergio Massa might travel to the United States later this week to close an agreement with the International Monetary Fund whereby the global agency would give the South American country some US$ 8.5 billion, it was reported in Buenos Aires.

• Monday, July 17th 2023 - 11:05 UTC

  Micro and small businesses behind 69% of jobs in Brazil

  

  According to a study conducted by the Brazilian Micro and Small Business Support Service (Sebrae), micro and small businesses have been behind the creation of seven out of ten formal jobs nationwide, Agencia Brasil reported.

• Saturday, July 15th 2023 - 10:52 UTC

  Falklands extends payment increases to all FIG grades

  

  Following representations from Falkland Islands Government Officers, Members of Legislative Assembly reconsidered their budget decisions to not award increments to officers in grades C-A and agreed in Executive Council on July 3 to extend the award to include the payment of increments to all grades.

• Saturday, July 15th 2023 - 10:36 UTC

  Argentina: “Blue” dollar keeps going up

  

  The “blue” (an euphemism for “black market”) dollar kept soaring Friday against the Argentine peso, reaching AR$ 525 at some point but closing the week at AR$ 522, it was reported in Buenos Aires for an AR$ 31 increase in the last five days and AR$ 13 from Thursday.