Category: Argentina

The main shareholders in Banco de Galicia, Argentina’s last big locally-owned bank, announced a share swap in which it will exchange stock in its holding company for bank shares held […]

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.

Argentina Alpargatas S.A.I.C.Av. Regimiento de Patricios 1142, Buenos Aires, Argentina 1266, Tel: (54-11) 4303-0041, Fax: (54-11) 4303-0041 int.675 Investor Contacts:CEO: Patricio Zavalia Lagos CFO: Alan Clutterbuck Banco de Galicia y […]

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.

An influential US senator pushes for shared seigniorage with Argentina.

The top-performing Latin American stock exchange in April was Argentina, which had a 34.1% gain. Surging behind Argentina is the Andean region where Venezuela posted a 31.5% upswing and Colombia […]