Tag: Indec

• Saturday, August 11th 2012 - 10:45 UTC

  Official (fantasy) inflation in Argentina 0.8% in July and 9.9% last 12 months

  

  Official consumer inflation in Argentina reached 0.8% in July accumulating 9.9% in the last twelve months and 5.9% in the first seven months of the year, according to the Indec statistics bureau.

• Friday, August 10th 2012 - 07:21 UTC

  Argentine private agencies July inflation 1.76% and 24.13% in twelve months

  

  Argentine opposition lawmakers presented on Thursday July’s inflation index based in the analysis of nine private agencies, which showed a 1.76% increase against the previous month and doubles the official index from the government of President Cristina Fernandez.

• Thursday, August 9th 2012 - 06:47 UTC

  For Argentine unions, food basket inflation is 52% higher than the official index

  

  Argentine organized labour CGT, announced that based on their own analysis of the products that make up the basic food basket, on average they are 52% more expensive than those analyzed by the official statistics office, Indec

• Wednesday, August 1st 2012 - 11:48 UTC

  Argentine construction activity slows down for third month running

  

  Argentine construction activity in Argentina during June dropped for the third consecutive month compared to a year ago. The drop was 1.5% according to the Construction Activity Synthetic Index (ISAC) from the country’s stats office, Indec.

• Friday, July 27th 2012 - 05:10 UTC

  Argentine union leader confesses he never believed in the “official inflation rate”

  

  Argentina’s Metal workers union (UOM) leader Antonio Caló said on Thursday he “never believed in the (official stats office) Indec” and openly estimated that inflation in the country is running at “23% to 24%”.

• Friday, July 20th 2012 - 08:27 UTC

  Argentines inflation expectations for the next 12 months in July climbed to 35.7%

  

  Argentines inflation expectation for the next twelve months climbed in July to 35.7% from 34.9% in June according to the latest report form the Di Tella University Finance research centre (UTDT).

• Wednesday, July 18th 2012 - 08:37 UTC

  Argentina’s industrial production in May slumped 5.1%, says Industrial Union

  

  Argentina's industrial production in May slumped 5.1% from a year earlier due to a sharp slowdown in the automotive, non-metal minerals and base metals sectors, manufacturer chamber UIA said in its monthly report Tuesday.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 23:36 UTC

  Argentine pro-government unions don’t trust Cristina’s stats and official inflation

  

  Despite having managed to split organized labour and declared war on its most powerful exponent the teamsters boss Hugo Moyano, the government of Argentine president Cristina Fernandez still has to deal with its unconvincing stats office and rampant inflation.

• Tuesday, July 17th 2012 - 04:47 UTC

  Moyano says unions will have their own stats office to keep track of inflation

  

  Argentina’s organized labour CGT leader Hugo Moyano began on Monday his new term at the helm of the umbrella union organization and once again targeted the government of President Cristina Fernandez promising to set up his own Indec (stats office) to measure inflation.

• 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.