Tag: Amado Boudou

• Tuesday, November 1st 2011 - 20:41 UTC

  Boudou says Argentine foreign exchange market with stabilize in a few days

  

  Argentina’s Economy Minister, Amado Boudou, came on stage again on Tuesday to bring calm to markets Monday’s debut of the very strict measures in the foreign exchange market strongly limiting the purchase of US dollars.

• Monday, October 31st 2011 - 19:27 UTC

  Argentina drastically limits the purchase of ‘cheap dollars’ fuelled by inflation

  

  Argentine Vice-president elect and Economy Minister Amado Boudou reiterated Monday that the new rules for foreign currency purchase in effect as of today are aimed towards discovering the “origin” of funds as opposed to the “destination” of the money.

• Saturday, October 29th 2011 - 03:46 UTC

  Argentina’ tax office will validate buyers of foreign exchange as of Monday

  

  Argentina’s tax revenue office (AFIP) will validate from Monday onwards the people or enterprises that purchase currencies at the foreign exchange markets in order to control if they have the funds to do it and end with the irregular transactions, Economy Minister Amado Boudou announced Friday.

• Tuesday, October 25th 2011 - 03:29 UTC

  CFK recovers control over both houses and with sufficient seats for quorum

  

  The Sunday landslide victory of President Cristina Fernandez means the coalition she leads has regained control of both houses of Congress (lost in the 2009 debacle) and with a sufficient majority to work with its own quorum.

• Monday, October 24th 2011 - 02:58 UTC

  CFK manages re-election with the widest margin since restoration of democracy

  

  President Cristina Fernandez was re-elected in a landslide Sunday, winning with the widest victory margin in Argentina since the recovery of democracy in 1983. At midnight and with 58% of polling stations reporting CFK had 53% of the vote with runner up Socialist Hermes Binner collecting 17.7%.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 06:45 UTC

  Given global crises Argentina urges region countries “to implement their own solutions”

  

  Argentine Economy Minister Amado Boudou urged countries in the region to “seize the opportunity created as a result of the crisis affecting developed nations and implement their own solutions.”

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  IMF insists Argentina must improve measuring inflation method

  

  Nicolas Eyzaguirre, the IMF director for Latin America, stated that Argentina must apply “major measures” to improve its method of measuring the inflation.

• Monday, August 22nd 2011 - 07:01 UTC

  Argentina needs ‘no contingency or emergency plan’ to face the crises

  

  Economy Minister Amado Boudou rejected the possibility that Argentina launches a brusque devaluation of its currency to make exports more competitive and insisted Argentina needs no emergency or contingency plan to face the challenge of the current crisis in the developed economies.

• Thursday, August 11th 2011 - 23:00 UTC

  Argentina’s financial “spin”

  

  On Sunday, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner will be seeking approval to lead the FPV in October’s general elections. With the country currently braving the world’s economic storm, she is keen to keep up appearances.

• Tuesday, August 9th 2011 - 21:09 UTC

  Argentina (and South America) “prepared to face rich countries economic crisis”

  

  Argentina’s Minister of Economy and President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner running mate for the upcoming presidential elections Amado Boudou stressed Tuesday that the country is ready to face the recent international economic crisis that has pushed world markets down for the past week.