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...Fernández de Kirchner, the current vice-president and a veteran on the left of the ruling Peronist party, was greeted by jubilant crowds at a rally in La Plata on November 17 chanting “Cristina Presidenta...
...Carlos Melconian, a former president of the state-run Banco Nación, said his plans were milder than expected: “So far, he has just swapped the chainsaw for the blender.”...
...The night before the inauguration, followers of Milei had gathered outside the headquarters of Argentina’s central bank for a symbolic wake with candles....
...US-listed shares in banks Banco Macro and Grupo Financiero Galicia gained 20 per cent and 17 per cent, respectively....
...Nicolás Pino, head of agribusiness lobby La Sociedad Rural Argentina, says cutting spending without also delivering deep reforms of Argentina’s state in the legislature is “no solution”....
...In a sign of possible trouble ahead, Argentina’s outgoing vice-president and former president, Cristina Fernández de Kirchner, the doyenne of the Peronist hard left, raised a finger to waiting protesters...
...In first-round voting, JxC’s candidate Patricia Bullrich scored 24 per cent, behind 30 per cent for Milei’s La Libertad Avanza and 37 per cent for Massa....
...outgoing Vice-President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner....
...central bank at the official rate as they must normally do....
...We met in a brasserie on Île de la Cité in central Paris. The restaurant had high ceilings, mirrors, polished floors and waiters that swerved around tables elegantly....
...Economists polled by Citi expected Banco de México to postpone rate cuts until December — and then are expected to cut them by just a quarter point....
...In 2020, the Banco Central de la República Argentina (BCRA) estimated that Argentines held $170bn in cash dollars in the country, or 10 per cent of all the dollars in circulation in the world and a fifth...
...The central bank’s net foreign currency reserves are roughly $6.5bn in the red, economists estimate....
...Quite a few of the wines I tasted came from vineyards at between 1,800m and 2,000m, which is higher than many vineyards in Mendoza, Argentina’s most important Andean wine region....
...The army has been pressed into service to help build 2,700 branches of the state-run Banco de Bienestar, two aqueducts and a new airport planned for the Maya Riviera resort of Tulum....
...But queues of people trying to buy dollars continued to form outside the central bank’s headquarters in La Paz this week....
...The 77-year-old former metalworker, who last ruled between 2003 and 2010, has lashed out at the central bank over its benchmark lending rate, the second-highest among G20 nations after neighbour Argentina...
...The decision came just days after Argentina’s largest private bank, Banco Galicia, and online bank Brubank announced plans to open up to digital assets by allowing users to buy different digital coins through...
...avenue, Paseo de la Reforma....
...Racing toward a run-off Banco de la República, the Colombian central bank, says it has seen evidence of capital flight from the country in the run-up to the election but claims the amounts are “not macroeconomically...
...The Banco de la República’s board in late September announced the first interest rate increase since 2016....
...Ignacio de la Torre, chief economist at Arcano Partners, highlights Spain’s commitment to double military spending from 1 to 2 per cent of GDP by 2030....
...Banco de Mexico’s rate rises have already triggered a political row with populist president Andrés Manuel López Obrador....
...Herrera said Ramírez de la O was likely to draw up the budget, which must be presented by September....
...With coronavirus continuing to disrupt businesses, and Zoom meetings becoming de rigueur, analysts forecast boom times for Adobe’s document and e-signature services....
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