Tag: Indec index

• Thursday, May 16th 2019 - 09:52 UTC

  April inflation in Argentina eases but reaches 3.4% and an annualized 55.8%

  

  Argentina released April inflation numbers on Wednesday, with the monthly price rise easing to 3.4% - high by international standards, but below market expectations and reversing an acceleration trend that began in January.

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• Tuesday, March 26th 2019 - 09:00 UTC

  A third of Argentines living below the poverty line; in Greater Buenos Aires, 41.1%

  

  Almost a third of Argentines were living below the poverty line at the end of 2018, according to a new report from the Catholic University of Argentina (UCA).

• Friday, December 14th 2018 - 08:54 UTC

  A third of the Argentine population is considered poor

  

  Poverty in Argentina has risen to its highest in eight years, a new report has revealed, with more than a third of the population now considered to be poor. The new survey, from the Catholic University of Argentina's Social Debt Observatory, found that 33.6% of Argentines were living below the poverty line in the third quarter of the year.

• Friday, November 16th 2018 - 12:31 UTC

  Argentina's October CPI 5.4% and 45.9% in twelve months

  

  Argentina's Consumer Price Index, CPI, increased 5.4% in October, and 39.5% in the last ten months, and 45.9% in twelve months, according to the latest report from the country's stats office, Indec. The items with the highest were Housing, 8.8%, followed by Transport, 7.6% while Food and Beverage, 5.9%.

• Monday, November 12th 2018 - 13:27 UTC

  Argentina's industrial activity in September down 11.5% in the last twelve months

  

  Argentine industrial activity plunged 11.5% year-on-year in September – the biggest drop in 16 years. The INDEC national statistics bureau said that manufacturing witnessed a fifth consecutive month of decline, following drops of 1.2% in May, 8.1% in June, 5.7% in July and 5.6% in August. It’s the biggest contraction since July 2002.

• Wednesday, October 24th 2018 - 07:15 UTC

  Argentina reports trade surplus in September, the first since December 2016

  

  Argentina had a trade surplus of US$ 314 million in September, official statistics agency Indec said on Tuesday, the first since December 2016 and an early sign the devaluation of the peso currency has benefited the country’s exporters.

• Friday, October 19th 2018 - 10:18 UTC

  Dollar, prices go up in inflation-ridden Argentina

  

  The US dollar rose 22 cents against the Argentine peso and closed at a 1 US$/ AR$37.50 parity on Thursday. It was the second day in a row for an upward trend following seven straight slumps.

• Thursday, October 18th 2018 - 07:36 UTC

  Argentina with a record 6.5% inflation in September, and 40.5% in twelve months

  

  Argentina says that consumer prices rose 6.5% in September bringing the twelve month inflation rate to 40.5%, one of the world's highest. The inflation rate published by the official statistics agency Indec, on Wednesday follows a sharp devaluation of Argentina's currency. The nine month rate reached 32.4%.

• Friday, September 28th 2018 - 07:55 UTC

  President Macri asks for patience; poverty index shows 27,3% Argentines live in poverty

  

  President Mauricio Macri on Thursday asked Argentines for patience in weathering an economic crisis this year and pledged to increase social spending in the coming months, a day after reaching a US$ 57.1 billion deal with the International Monetary Fund.

• Saturday, August 18th 2018 - 07:00 UTC

  Macri anticipates more Argentines will fall into poverty this year

  

  More Argentines are likely living in poverty now compared with last year, President Mauricio Macri said on Friday, as the country's economy slides toward recession following a currency crisis and a severe drought that harmed farm output.