Argentina

BMI View: Argentina's current account swung into a deficit of US$116mn in Q311, posing some downside risk to our year-end estimate of a current account surplus of US$3.0bn or 0.8%... 2012-02-03

Argentine President Cristina Fernández successfully underwent thyroid cancer surgery on January 4 and her recovery has shown no complications so far, according to Alfredo Scoccimarro,... 2012-01-09

BMI View:Argentina continued to show strong resilience to global headwinds in Q311, as its GDP grew by 9.1% y-o-y. While we see significant upside risk to our GDP growth forecast of... 2012-01-09

BMI View: Despite the Argentine economy's strong resilience to global headwinds in 2011, we reiterate our view that growth is set for a slowdown in 2012, due to a drag from net exports... 2011-12-08

BMI View: Argentina's foreign exchange reserves declined for the third consecutive month in October to US$47.5bn, down by 8.5% y-o-y and by 2.2% m-o-m. Given the government's plan... 2011-11-24

According to reports following a meeting between President Fernández and the newly appointed Argentine ambassador to the United States, Jorge Argüello, the president is pushing for... 2011-11-24

The official visit that Argentinean President Cristina Fernández paid to Coniagro, one of the country's largest farmers associations, was interpreted by many as a sign of improving... 2011-10-26

Argentina's M2 money supply increased by 36.4% y-o-y in August 2011, to ARS301,120mn up from ARS299,517mn in July. In month-on-month terms this translates to an increase of 0.5% and... 2011-10-26

As Argentine President Cristina Fernández confirmed expectations with a resounding victory in the October 23 presidential election, our initial thoughts are for policy adjustment... 2011-10-26

On September 28, Argentine authorities successfully recovered and seized 50kgs of cocaine, and arrested an alleged narco-trafficking gang leader, a Mexican national, Luis Rafael Ulibarri,... 2011-09-30