Tag: Indec

• Friday, March 23rd 2018 - 09:06 UTC

  Argentina expanded 2.9% last year; 2018 challenging given the persistent drought effect on crops

  

  Argentina's economy expanded 2.9% in 2017 from the prior year and 3.9% in the fourth quarter versus the same period in 2016, the Indec statistics agency said this week. The year-over-year figure was slightly above the 2.8% annual growth rate given last month by Argentina's monthly economic activity indicator, seen as a proxy for gross domestic product.

• Thursday, February 15th 2018 - 09:45 UTC

  Argentina central bank holds benchmark rate at 27.25%; inflation data on Thursday

  

  Argentina’s central bank held its benchmark seven-day interbank lending rate at 27.25% on Wednesday, the monetary authority said in a statement, amid an increase in inflation expectations and “mixed signals” in prices so far this year.

• Friday, October 13th 2017 - 13:54 UTC

  Argentina's September CPI 1.9% and 17.6% in nine months

  

  Consumer prices rose 1.9% in Argentina in September, government statistics agency Indec said on Thursday, pushing the nine-month inflation reading to 17.6%, above the upper band of the central bank’s target for the year.

• Monday, June 27th 2016 - 07:15 UTC

  Brazil's recession greater risk than Brexit for Argentina: could chip 1.5 percentage points from GDP

  

  Argentina’s annual rate of inflation was likely to have reached an annualized 42% through May, but should begin to slow in June with a return to growth also on the horizon, Finance Minister Alfonso Prat-Gay said in an address to investors in New York. The minister also said that for Argentina, Brazil's recession had a greater impact than Brexit.

• Wednesday, July 2nd 2014 - 00:13 UTC

  Data confirms Argentina's economy has slid into recession

  

  Argentina’s economic activity index (EMAE), which is seen as a close proxy of GDP, fell 0.5% in April compared with the same month last year, according to data released by the government's stats office Indec. Nonetheless activity went up 0.6% in April compared to March.

• Thursday, February 13th 2014 - 03:06 UTC

  January inflation climbed 4.61% during January according to Congress index

  

  Argentina's inflation in January climbed to 4.61% and 30.78% in the last twelve months according to the average from private consultants estimates which are released every month by opposition lawmakers in what is known as the 'Congressional index'.

• Friday, September 20th 2013 - 20:50 UTC

  Argentine consumers’ inflation expectations for next twelve months above 30%

  

  Argentines expect an inflation of 30% for the next twelve months despite a slight deceleration in prices which consumers admit in some periods of the current year according to the findings from the Di Tella University.

• Monday, May 27th 2013 - 05:00 UTC

  Argentina’s industrial production up in April, but down in four months of 2013

  

  Argentina's April industrial production rose 1.7% over the same month a year earlier with a big jump in automobile output and more modest gains in the production of building materials, government data showed on Friday.

• Tuesday, May 14th 2013 - 18:58 UTC

  Argentine inflation controversy: court vindicates private stats agencies

  

  An Argentine appeals court threw out the fines that Domestic Trade Secretary Guillermo Moreno had slapped on private firms that issued inflation estimates that were much higher than the government’s official rate.

• Thursday, May 2nd 2013 - 07:50 UTC

  Argentina’s seafood exports in two months: 48.418 tons; lower prices for hake, squid and shrimp

  

  Argentina reported exports of 48.418 tons of seafood in the first two months of the year equivalent to 140.8 million dollars, which is 8.2% less than the same period a year ago, mainly because of lower prices.