Tag: Indec

• Thursday, January 16th 2020 - 08:52 UTC

  Argentine Inflation ended 2019 at 53.8%, the highest figure since 1991

  

  Inflation in Argentina ended 2019 at 53.8%, the highest figure since 1991 when the peso was pegged to the US dollar, data institute Indec said on Wednesday. Indec said the cost of living increased by 3.7% in December alone.

• Saturday, December 28th 2019 - 09:48 UTC

  Argentina's unemployment in the third quarter rose to 9.7%

  

  Argentina’s unemployment rate rose to 9.7% in the third quarter versus 9.0% in the same period last year, marking one of the highest rates recorded in recent years, the official INDEC statistics agency said.

• Monday, December 23rd 2019 - 10:35 UTC

  Argentine individuals and corporations hold some 322.3 billion dollars outside the domestic financial system

  

  Argentines ever so suspicious of their currency and so fully confident in the all mighty US dollar, they have some US$ 322 billion hidden in the “mattress”, which means mostly overseas in bonds, shares, real estate, according to the latest figures released by the country's stats office, Indec.

• Thursday, October 17th 2019 - 09:54 UTC

  September inflation in Argentina reaches 5.9% and 53.5% in twelve months

  

  Argentina consumer prices rose 5.9% in September, the country’s statistics agency said on Wednesday, the sharpest jump in a year amid a flaring economic crisis in Latin America’s no. 3 economy. That brought year-to-date inflation to 37.7%, the National Institute of Statistics and Censuses (INDEC) said, while rolling 12-month inflation was running at 53.5%.

• Friday, October 4th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  
Argentine industrial activity dropped 6.4% in August and 8.1% so far this year

  

  Industrial activity in Argentina dropped 6.4% during August compared to a year ago and 2.8% over last July, totalling a slide of 8.1% so far this year, according to the official stats office, Indec.

• Friday, September 20th 2019 - 16:44 UTC

  Unemployment on the rise in Macri's Argentina

  

  Unemployment in Argentina reached 10.6% in the second quarter of 2019, the highest ever since President Mauricio Macri took office in December, 2015, according to data released Thursday by the National Institute of Statistics and Census (INDEC).

• Thursday, September 19th 2019 - 10:32 UTC

  Argentina defreezes fuel price meaning 4% increase at pumps

  

  Effective this Thursday, the government of Argentina agreed to defreeze the price of fuel and thus authorize a 4 percent increase after yielding to pressure from province governors and oil companies as the barrel of crude also goes up globally.

• Monday, July 15th 2019 - 12:16 UTC

  Poverty in Argentina on the rise, Catholic University research shows

  

  Poverty in Argentina reached “35 per cent” so far this year, according to Argentine Catholic University (UCA), it was reported last week.

• Thursday, June 20th 2019 - 09:46 UTC

  Unemployment in Argentina jumps to 10.1% in the first quarter of 2019

  

  Argentina's unemployment rate rose to 10.1% in the first quarter from 9.1% in the first three months of last year, the official INDEC statistics agency said. This is the highest level since current president Mauricio Macri took office, and the worst in thirteen years.

• Friday, June 14th 2019 - 09:40 UTC

  Argentine inflation 3.1% in May and 57.3% in twelve months

  

  Argentine consumer prices rose 3.1% in May, the government’s official statistics agency said on Thursday. Accumulated inflation in the 12 months through May came to 57.3%, and year-to-date inflation was 19.2%, according to the National Census and Statistics Institute, known by its acronym, INDEC.