Tag: Argentina Central Bank

• 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  Argentine savers have withdrawn more than US $ 400 million from their bank accounts this week amid growing rumours that the Central Bank (BCRA) was considering a new “corralito”, like the one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.

• Tuesday, November 16th 2021 - 09:45 UTC

  US dollar does not soar as expected following Argentina's elections results

  

  Contrary to expectations, the unofficial exchange rate between the Argentine peso and the US dollar remained somewhat stable Monday following the ruling party's overall loss at Sunday's mid-term elections.

• Friday, October 22nd 2021 - 23:55 UTC

  Unofficial exchange rate shows Argentina's de facto devaluation

  

  The unofficial exchange rate (commonly referred to as “blue”) of the Argentine peso against the US dollar Friday hit an all-time high, reaching a US $ 1 = AR $ 195 parity thus matching an all-time-high of exactly one year ago (Oct.23, 2020), it was reported.

• Wednesday, July 28th 2021 - 09:10 UTC

  Argentina makes payment to Paris Club, loses reserves to cope with domestic demand of foreign currency

  

  Argentina Tuesday made a payment to the Paris Club which resulted in the country's reserves falling to the US $ 42,837 million, it was reported.

• Thursday, March 4th 2021 - 09:24 UTC

  Argentina's banks face a tough year: bad loans, inflation and regulations

  

  Rising inflation plus bad loans and government regulations anticipate a tough 2021 according to the CEO of Argentina's biggest private bank by market capitalization. “If inflation is high, there is a risk that bank results will fall to very low or negative levels in real terms,” Fabian Kon said in an interview in Buenos Aires.

• Wednesday, January 8th 2020 - 09:49 UTC

  S&P admits a mistake and raised its debt grade for Argentina to CCC

  

  S&P Global Ratings raised its debt grade for Argentina on Tuesday, acknowledging the agency made a mistake when it changed the rating in late December for the crisis hit country.

• Friday, January 3rd 2020 - 09:54 UTC

  Argentina issues Treasury Bills, subscribed by the Central bank, to pay creditors

  

  Argentina's new government announced the issuance of US$ 1.326 billion of dollar-denominated Treasury Bills, to be directly subscribed by the central bank, according to a decree in the Official Gazette on Thursday.

• Thursday, January 2nd 2020 - 08:59 UTC

  Argentine president calls for “social responsibility” from business people, otherwise government will intervene

  

  Argentine president Alberto Fernandez called for “social responsibility” from business people demanding they don't increase prices above reasonable levels, since “fighting inflation is a battle that involves all of us”.