Tag: Indec index

• Saturday, August 13th 2016 - 08:24 UTC

  Argentina's July inflation falls to 2%, confirming sliding tendency

  

  Argentina's inflation rate eased to 2% in July, less than half of what it was two months before when the government began reporting consumer price data after revamping the country's troubled statistics office. The July figure was released on Friday by the new Indec data agency. A month earlier it reported 3.1% inflation for June and 4.2% for May when it issued its first consumer price report since President Mauricio Macri took office in December.

• Thursday, June 16th 2016 - 08:08 UTC

  Argentina's revamped stats data launched: May inflation 4.2%

  

  Argentina released inflation figures for the first time since December last year, when newly elected president Mauricio Macri suspended the publication of economic data and intervened the official stats office, Indec, following long standing claims of manipulation by his predecessor.

• Thursday, June 2nd 2016 - 09:03 UTC

  Argentina's industrial production down 6.7% year on year in April

  

  Argentina's industrial output contracted 6.7% in April compared with the same month last year, the country's newly revamped Indec statistics agency said, punctuating the effect of recent fiscal austerity measures.

• Monday, May 16th 2016 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina's economy grows 0.8% during first quarter says Central bank

  

  Argentina's economy grew 0.8% on the first quarter of the year compared to the same period last year, Central Bank Governor Federico Sturzenegger said, declaring that since President Mauricio Macri took office employment has remained “stable.”

• Monday, January 25th 2016 - 10:10 UTC

  Proxy inflation in Argentina reached 6.5% in December and 31.6% in 2015

  

  Consumer prices rose 6.5% in December in the Argentine province of San Luis, one of the indexes the new leaders of the country's INDEC statistics bureau had said could be used as a proxy for national inflation figures — amounting to a cumulative 31.6% increase in 2015.

• Thursday, January 21st 2016 - 07:33 UTC

  Argentine Finance minister expected to meet IMF chief to renew formal ties

  

  Argentine Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay is planning to meet with IMF's Christine Lagarde at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, to discuss resuming formal ties with the international lender, according to a report published by Bloomberg.

• Saturday, December 12th 2015 - 07:11 UTC

  Argentina's new administration package of economic measures next week

  

  Argentine finance minister Alfonso Prat-Gay announced on Friday that next week levies on farm (grains and oilseeds) exports will be lowered, the half year bonus of wage earners if below 30.000 Argentine Pesos will be exempt from income tax, and the policy of “looked-after prices” at supermarkets will continue.

• Sunday, October 25th 2015 - 10:43 UTC

  Tierra del Fuego inflation in September jumped 1.2% and 25.1% in 12 months

  

  September inflation in the Argentine extreme south province of Tierra del Fuego reached 1.2% and 18,8% in the nine months of the year, and 25.1% in the last twelve months according to the provincial stats and census office.

• Thursday, October 15th 2015 - 07:10 UTC

  Argentine September inflation 1.92% and 25.91% in last twelve months

  

  September inflation in Argentina was 1,92% and reached 25.91% in the last twelve months according to the monthly report from opposition members of Congress, which is based on the average of the country's leading private consultants. Later this week the official Indec rate is expected to be announced, systematically lower than that of the so called Congress index.

• Thursday, September 17th 2015 - 08:54 UTC

  Argentine magistrate orders Executive to release poverty figures; government says judge is 'meddling'

  

  An Argentine magistrate ordered the Executive to present official reports on the extent of poverty and indigence in the country, figures which allegedly the much questioned stats office, Indec ceased to release almost two years ago. However cabinet chief Anibal Fernandez ironically downplayed the order arguing the judge was 'meddling' in something she does not know.