Tag: Indec

• Saturday, July 14th 2012 - 01:22 UTC

  Argentina has three annual inflation estimates: 9.9%; 23.96% and 30%

  

  Argentina's government reported Friday that consumer prices rose by 0.7% in June. The estimate, published by national statistics agency, Indec, indicates that in the first half of 2012 inflation reached 5.1% and 9.9% in the last twelve months.

• Tuesday, July 10th 2012 - 05:19 UTC

  “Activity level has dropped” says Argentine industrial union chief

  

  The head of the Argentine Industrial Union, José Ignacio de Mendiguren, admitted that “it's clear that the activity level has dropped,” and warned that “the construction-related sectors delay the new projects.”

• Thursday, June 21st 2012 - 05:44 UTC

  Argentines inflation expectations remain above 30% for the fourth month running

  

  Argentines' expectations for future inflation held steady in June, marking the fourth consecutive month in which people have expected annual inflation to total 30%.

• Sunday, May 27th 2012 - 03:47 UTC

  August 3, an emblematic date for Argentina’s “dollar-clamp” policy

  

  The current strict measures to counter the purchase of US dollars and by extension capital flight, implemented by Argentina apparently have a calendar date full of political significance: August 3 when the Boden 2012 fully matures.

• Friday, May 25th 2012 - 22:33 UTC

  April consumer confidence rose in Argentina for the first time in five months

  

  A closely watched gauge of Argentina consumer confidence rose for the first time in five months in May, according to a report published this week by Torcuato di Tella University, UTDT.

• Saturday, April 21st 2012 - 03:56 UTC

  IMF says YPF dispute is a “bilateral affair” and decision of “a sovereign nation”

  

  Argentina managed a first point in the diplomatic dispute with Spain over the nationalization of YPF when the IMF decided to call the conflict a “bilateral affair” and “a decision of a sovereign nation”.

• Wednesday, March 14th 2012 - 02:56 UTC

  Argentine ‘official’ February inflation at 0.7%: private estimates, 1.65%

  

  Argentine inflation reached 0.7% in February against the previous month, and accumulated a 1.7% increase in 2012 so far, according to the Indec national statistics bureau. This is less than half the index from the private agencies and released as the •Congress index”, which in February marked 1.65% and

• Friday, March 9th 2012 - 03:12 UTC

  Argentine ‘non official’ February inflation: 1.65% and 22.75% in twelve months

  

  February inflation in Argentina according to an average of private agencies which is released monthly by members of the Congressional opposition was 1.65%, climbing to 22.75% in the last twelve months. The official Indec inflation is scheduled to be released next March 13.

• Monday, March 5th 2012 - 05:56 UTC

  Inter American bank does not trust Argentine official stats, uses private estimates

  

  Argentina must solve the controversy over the measurement of inflation which has significant economic and political costs, said Eugenio Diaz-Bonilla the Inter American Development Bank, IADB, director for Argentina and Haiti.

• Friday, February 24th 2012 - 07:38 UTC

  Argentina and the price of cooking the books, according to The Economist

  

  History has left Argentines with more than their share of economic trauma. Having twice suffered destructive bouts of hyperinflation in the late 1980s, they are sensitive to rising prices. When they spot inflation their instinct is to dump the peso and buy dollars.