Tag: Patricia Bullrich

• Friday, August 14th 2015 - 09:44 UTC

  Argentina: July inflation 1.92% and 27.15% annually says Congressional index

  

  Argentina's July inflation for the private financial consultants climbed 1.92% and in the last twelve months reached 27.15%, according to the report released in Congress by opposition lawmakers. The so called 'congress index' is an average of the different private consultants which is released monthly by lawmakers to avoid fines and reprisals from government.

• Wednesday, July 15th 2015 - 07:25 UTC

  Argentina's congressional index reports 1.52% inflation in June, and 27.9% in twelve months

  

  Inflation in Argentina clocked 1.53% in June accumulating 27.9% in the last twelve months according to the report released on Tuesday by members of the Congressional opposition based on an average from private consultants. This week Argentina's government stats office, Indec in scheduled to announce the official rate.

• Friday, June 12th 2015 - 06:33 UTC

  Argentina's CPI in May reached 2% and 28.7% in the last twelve months

  

  Argentina's Consumer price index, CPI, during May climbed 2% reaching 28,7% in the last twelve months, according to the Congressional monthly report from opposition lawmakers, which is an average of private consultants. The data was released on Thursday with strong words against President Cristina Fernández statements in Rome that poverty in Argentina was 5%, virtually less than Denmark and Germany.

• Monday, April 20th 2015 - 06:20 UTC

  March inflation in Argentina ranges from 1.3% to 2.12%

  

  Argentine inflation in March reached 2.12% over February accumulating 29.8% in the last twelve months according to the average of private consultants, which every month is released by opposition members in Congress. This is one percentage point higher than the official March rate announced by the Argentine government's discredited stats office, Indec, 1.3%.

• Friday, January 30th 2015 - 07:14 UTC

  Nisman “was not the maker of his death” underlines former wife at the burial

  

  Argentine special prosecutor Alberto Nisman was buried on Thursday in the same section of the main Jewish cemetery in Buenos Aires as the victims in the 1994 AMIA bombing that he was investigating, but the circumstances surrounding his death have become even more confusing and mysterious.

• Tuesday, January 20th 2015 - 05:10 UTC

  Opposition demands protection of Nisman's records; protest marches in Argentine cities

  

  A group of Argentine opposition senators and lawmakers went ahead on Monday with an informal meeting in Congress which prosecutor Alberto Nisman was expected to address and called for the official's alleged evidence relating to the AMIA case to be protected from interference.

• Saturday, January 17th 2015 - 09:20 UTC

  Cristina Fernandez first twit reaction to 'Iran plot' claim; Nisman to Congress next week

  

  Argentine President Cristina Fernández made her first public statement since AMIA special prosecutor Alberto Nisman accused her of allegedly covering up Iran’s role in the 1994 attack that left 85 dead and 300 injured. Nisman is scheduled to visit congress next week invited by opposition lawmakers to reveal further details of the alleged plot.

• Saturday, December 6th 2014 - 04:44 UTC

  Argentina stats: IMF sees advances, but the issue is a heated debate in Congress

  

  The International Monetary Fund has expressed conformity with the achievements made by the Argentine government regarding the updating of the country's statistics, and hoped to finish its evaluation in February, Director Christine Lagarde announced during a press conference in Santiago de Chile.

• Thursday, October 16th 2014 - 07:40 UTC

  September inflation in Argentina: anywhere between 1.4% and 2.48%

  

  Argentina's inflation during September reached 1.4% and accumulates 19.8% in the nine months according to the latest release from the government stats office Indec. However earlier in the week the Freedom of Expression committee from the Lower House which regularly announces the average of private analysts, (identified as the congressional index), said the consumer price index for the ninth month of the year was 2.48% and 41.6% in the last twelve months.

• Saturday, September 13th 2014 - 06:57 UTC

  Argentina with two August inflation measures: the official Indec, 1,3% and the congressional rate, 2.65%

  

  Argentina has two consumer prices indexes, and they differ considerably. In effect during August the so called congressional index doubled the official rate: the National Urban Consumer Price (IPCNU) released by the stats office Indec, in the eighth month of the year was 1,3%, which means inflation in the first eight months stands at 18,2%.