Tag: Alberto Fernandez

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 08:15 UTC

  The Challenges of Argentina’s Debt Renegotiation

  

  By Jose Antonio Ocampo (*) – By affirming that Argentina's public-sector debt is unsustainable, the International Monetary Fund has taken a critical step toward resolving the country's long-running crisis. Moving forward, one hopes that the Fund will realize its own role in the latest crisis and follow its own advice on when to pursue capital-market liberalization.

• Thursday, February 27th 2020 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentine farmers with a “deep sense of deception”, ahead of grains export tariffs

  

  Argentina's Ministry of Agriculture suspended on Wednesday the registration of agricultural exports until further notice, it said in a statement, a move that traders said likely foreshadowed a steep increase in grains export tariffs.

• Tuesday, February 25th 2020 - 07:31 UTC

  Argentine ambassador in US meets Secretary of State Mike Pompeo

  

  Argentine ambassador in Washington Jorge Argüello held a meeting on Monday with Secretary of State Mike Pompeo, with the purpose of strengthening bilateral relations and which was described as “highly productive”.

• Sunday, February 23rd 2020 - 05:29 UTC

  Argentina manages a US$ 1.02bn trade surplus in January

  

  Argentina's economic activity expanded in December as retail sales and manufacturing advanced, while the country posted a trade surplus in January that almost tripled the surplus the same month a year earlier.

• Saturday, February 22nd 2020 - 10:08 UTC

  Argentina economy shrinks two years running, 2.1% in 2019 after 2.5% in 2018

  

  Recession-hit Argentina's economy shrank by 2.1% in 2019, the state statistics institute said on Friday. The institute said the economy contracted by 0.3% in December compared to the same period in 2018.

• Friday, February 21st 2020 - 08:40 UTC

  Argentina pressing Uruguay on Falklands' RAF flights landing in Carrasco

  

  Argentina is again putting pressure on Uruguay, this time on the incoming government which takes office next March first, insisting no UK military aircraft linked to the Falkland Islands be allowed to land in the country's airports and Falklands should not be treated as state with which Uruguay has extensive trade and business exchanges.

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:55 UTC

  IMF chief denies any haircut on the Argentine loan; Alberto Fernandez questions the decision

  

  The International Monetary Fund, as the lender of last resort, won’t offer a haircut on its Argentina loan after Vice President Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner called on the institution to take a loss.

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:32 UTC

  FT: “Argentina needs a plan for investment-led growth”

  

  The Financial Times dedicated on Monday an editorial to Argentina and its current strategy to avoid again defaulting by pressing on the IMF, and later on sovereign bondholders, for a significant haircut in its national debt approaching 90% of GDP. However, FT points out that “debt talks are unlikely to succeed without a strategy for economic revival”

• Tuesday, February 18th 2020 - 06:25 UTC

  Bolsonaro insists in a good relation with Argentina, and insists in meeting with Alberto Fernandez

  

  Brazilian president Jair Bolsonaro said on Monday he wants a “good relationship” with Argentina and it is up to the foreign ministers of both countries to agree on a meeting with his peer Alberto Fernandez, since the announced summit scheduled for March first in Montevideo, had fallen through.

• Monday, February 17th 2020 - 08:54 UTC

  Incoming Uruguayan foreign minister invited by Argentina's Felipe Solá

  

  This Tuesday the incoming Uruguayan foreign minister Ernesto Talvi will be in Buenos Aires on an invitation from his future peer Felipe Solá, which has been interpreted as the first formal contact between the Kirchnerite government of Alberto Fernandez and that of president-elect Luis Lacalle Pou, who takes office on March first.