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Argentina’s High Real Interest Rates Restrict Corporate Credit and Investment

Corporate overdraft rates are running at close to 50% in real terms under Argentina’s tight monetary policy, limiting financing for small and medium-sized businesses and delaying investment in manufacturing.
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Asset Disclosures Spark Debate Over Argentine Officials’ Wealth Held Abroad

New financial disclosures have drawn domestic scrutiny after showing that senior economic officials hold much of their multimillion-dollar wealth outside Argentina’s financial s...

Buenos Aires Luxury Property Transactions Rise as Capital Returns to Formal Economy

Developers in Puerto Madero and northern Buenos Aires are reporting strong residential and commercial property activity as the federal asset-regularization program draws previou...

Argentine Retailers Expand as Multinational Supermarket Chains Retreat

Domestic retail cooperatives and regional supermarket groups are acquiring commercial properties and expanding across Argentina as several multinational grocery chains reduce th...

Globant Partners With Salesforce on Agentic AI Enterprise Services

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Argentina’s Supreme Court Presses Government to Resolve Provincial Revenue-Sharing Dispute

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El Niño Forecast Raises Flooding Concerns for Argentina’s Agricultural Regions

The World Meteorological Organization has warned of a strengthening El Niño pattern, raising concerns among Argentine agricultural groups about flooding and logistics disruption...

Argentina’s Farm Exporters Face Pressure From Exchange-Rate Policy

Argentine soy and corn producers are cutting logistics and operating costs as the central bank maintains a 1% monthly crawling peg, putting pressure on agricultural export profi...

Paraguay Opens Talks to Import Natural Gas From Argentina’s Vaca Muerta

Paraguay is exploring long-term agreements to import natural gas from Argentina’s Vaca Muerta basin, potentially expanding Argentine energy exports and strengthening regional en...

Argentina Reports 500,000 New Formal Private-Sector Jobs Amid Public-Sector Cuts

Argentina’s Economy Ministry said deregulation has helped create 500,000 formal private-sector jobs while the government has eliminated more than 70,000 public-sector positions ...

Argentina’s Energy Boom Deepens Economic Divide Between Neuquén and Interior Provinces

Private-sector hiring is strengthening in Neuquén’s energy-producing areas while traditional manufacturing and agricultural provinces face business closures as weak domestic con...
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