Tag: Indec

• Saturday, November 12th 2011 - 09:51 UTC

  Argentine official October inflation 0.6%; the congressional index, 1.6%

  

  Argentina's official inflation was reported at 0.6% in October, breaking with 18 straight months of consumer prices reported at either 0.7 or 0.8%, the government reported on Friday.

• Saturday, October 15th 2011 - 04:30 UTC

  Argentine September official inflation 0.8%, less than half private estimates

  

  September inflation in Argentina climbed 0.8%, less than half the estimate from private consultants, according to the latest report from the discredited Statistics and Census Institute, Indec. In nine months accumulated inflation reached 7.3% and compared to a year ago, 9.9%.

• Thursday, October 13th 2011 - 23:23 UTC

  Argentine ‘Congress inflation’ in August reached 1.89%, double the official index

  

  Argentine opposition members of the Lower House released on Thursday the dissident inflation rate (‘Congress index’) for October. The index, which was set at 1.89%, is based on reports delivered by some private consultants, which differ substantially from that release by the INDEC Statistics Bureau Agency.

• Monday, September 26th 2011 - 06:34 UTC

  IMF insists Argentina must improve measuring inflation method

  

  Nicolas Eyzaguirre, the IMF director for Latin America, stated that Argentina must apply “major measures” to improve its method of measuring the inflation.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 23:40 UTC

  Argentina’ industrial output growth slowed down in August, says Indec

  

  Argentina's industrial output growth slowed in August to 5.2% year-on-year, while month-on-month economic activity contracted in July for the first time in 13 months, the government said on Friday.

• Friday, September 23rd 2011 - 01:41 UTC

  IMF chief wants “constructive dialogue” with Argentina but warns about stats

  

  The head of the International Monetary Fund, Christine Lagarde, said on Thursday that she wants a “constructive dialogue” with Argentina, while at the same time warned that she is not willing to make any “concessions” in terms of the quality of official data the IMF receives from member countries.

• Thursday, September 22nd 2011 - 08:36 UTC

  IMF will use private and provincial data to gauge Argentine economy

  

  The International Monetary Fund will use estimates from the private sector and provincial governments to measure economic growth and inflation in Argentina, underscoring the IMF distrust of official data.

• Saturday, September 17th 2011 - 05:03 UTC

  Argentina’s economy expanded 9.1% in the second quarter, according to Indec

  

  Argentina's economy grew 9.1% in the second quarter from a year earlier, the national statistics agency, Indec, reported Friday.

• Thursday, September 15th 2011 - 07:02 UTC

  August “official” inflation in Argentina, 0.8%, less than half the Congress index

  

  ‘Official’ inflation in Argentina hit 0.8% in August and accumulated 6.4% in the first eight months of the year and 9.8% in the last twelve months, according to the Indec statistics and census bureau.

• Saturday, September 3rd 2011 - 07:40 UTC

  Argentine August inflation at 2% pushed by food prices, say private estimates

  

  A surge in fresh food prices has pushed Argentina’s August consumer inflation to one of the highest of the year, 2% over the previous month, according to private consultant estimates and published in the Buenos Aires press.