Category: Argentina

Domestic investors should absorb Argentina’s financing needs for the rest of the year. But a huge deficit and eroding export competitiveness remain key problems for the sovereign and the markets.

Argentina’s currency board maintains strong local support but receives mixed reviews internationally. Andrew Powell, chief economist at the Central Bank of Argentina, defends the system.

Argentina, Latin America’s biggest and most frequent borrower, returned to the markets in May, launching a 750 million euro five year bond, lead managed by Chase Manhattan and JP Morgan. […]

While Argentina had a quiet month on the international bond market, the province of Buenos Aires stepped in to take up the slack. International and Argentine institutional investors snatched up […]

Pérez Companc, Argentina’s last major independent energy company, does the contrarian thing by issuing a stock swap to preserve its independence.

Argentine media conglomerate Grupo Clarín finally decides it must give up equity to preserve its communications hegemony.

Argentina’s finance secretary, Daniel Marx, will wage a campaign against pessimistic investors and skeptical markets this year. The country was once the darling of emerging markets but now is a far harder sell.

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Despite the euphoria in the immediate aftermath of Repsol’s purchase of blue chip YPF, the Argentine stock market’s near-term future looks far from rosy, writes David Swafford.