Tag: Dante Caputo

• Wednesday, March 13th 2024 - 10:29 UTC

  Argentina: Inflation in February reaches 13.2%, according to Indec

  

  According to a report from Argentina's National Institute of Statistics and Census (Indec) released Tuesday in Buenos Aires, the South American country's Consumer Price Index (CPI) went up 13.2% in February of 2024 for a yoy total of 276% amid notorious declines in industry, construction, and consumption.

• Tuesday, June 19th 2018 - 08:35 UTC

  Argentina shores the Peso, stock market tumbles, ahead of 'Super Tuesday'

  

  Argentina's peso rose sharply on Monday as a new central bank chief took his first moves to shore up the battered currency, while escalating fears of a damaging trade war between the United States and China drove Latin American stocks down. The Argentine peso jumped after the central bank said it will hike bank's reserve requirements in a move expected to tighten local-currency liquidity after the latest run on the peso.

• Friday, May 11th 2018 - 06:29 UTC

  Argentine stock market climbs 6% and the exchange market operates cautiously

  

  Argentine equities rallied on Thursday, while the country's peso currency was stable, as the central bank sold foreign currency reserves in the spot market for the first time since the country announced it was seeking financing from the IMF.

• Friday, November 3rd 2017 - 07:52 UTC

  EU support: Argentina sells 30-year Euro bond, first time in history

  

  Argentina finalized its foreign bond sale plan for 2017 on Thursday, selling 2.75 billion Euros in three bonds in an offering that was more than four times oversubscribed, the Finance Ministry said in a statement.

• Saturday, February 20th 2016 - 10:08 UTC

  Falklands: Malcorra confident 'there's a horizon of possibility for dialogue'

  

  Foreign minister Susana Malcorra said that analyzing the different scenarios in the UK regarding the Falklands/Malvinas sovereignty dispute, “there is a horizon of possibility for Argentina to have a dialogue” on the issue.

• Thursday, February 18th 2016 - 01:03 UTC

  Malvinas, a dream that can be rescued

  

  Under this heading Dante Caputo, a former Argentine foreign minister (1983/89) with an impeccable domestic and international academic background addresses the 'Malvinas question' and proposes Argentina sets a 2033 target for a new attempt on the Islands, this time trying to convince the Falkland Islanders, and that in seventeen years time, the country is reliable and sovereignty discussions should then take place.

• Wednesday, April 10th 2013 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentine lawmakers criticize Lady Thatcher over the ‘Belgrano’ and for promoting economic ‘neo-liberalism’

  

  The Argentine government remains silent on the death last Monday of former British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher, but several lawmakers, former officials and Malvinas veterans organizations did have something say and not only linked to the Falklands war and the sinking of the Argentine cruiser ‘Belgrano’ in May 1982.