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1 week ago | 
yahoo.com | Lucila Sigal |Eliana Raszewski
By Lucila Sigal and Eliana RaszewskiBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina's central bank has announced a major overhaul to the country's exchange rate policy, unleashing the peso and years-long controls on the currency ahead of an expected $20 billion International Monetary Fund deal. The central bank announced that it will undo a fixed currency peg from Monday, letting the peso freely fluctuate within a moving band.
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1 week ago | 
ground.news | Lucila Sigal |Eliana Raszewski
First act: the economy on the looserope The government published a DNU that allows it to become indebted to the IMF, which was quickly endorsed by Congress. An agreement that has not yet been signed and of which nothing is known about the conditions.This new decree was not due to the anxiety typical of an unbalanced but functional president to economic power, but to the urgency to sustain an economic stability that hangs on a thread and that for…
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4 weeks ago | 
finance.yahoo.com | Lucila Sigal
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina is targeting a $20 billion deal with the International Monetary Fund, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Thursday, formally putting a figure on the long-mooted program for the first time as he looks to calm local market jitters.
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4 weeks ago | 
streetinsider.com | Lucila Sigal
1. TSLA2. GM3. SPY4. F5. GME6. DLTR7. CHWY8. WOOF9. DOOO10. NVDA Tweet Share E-mail0 shares Argentina's Economy Minister Luis Caputo speaks during the CPAC (Conservative Political Action Conference) in Buenos Aires, Argentina December 4, 2024.
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4 weeks ago | 
gazette.com | Lucila Sigal
By Lucila SigalBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Argentina is targeting a $20 billion deal with the International Monetary Fund, Economy Minister Luis Caputo said on Thursday, formally putting a figure on the long-mooted program for the first time as he looks to calm local market jitters.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Lucila Sigal
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1 month ago | 
kfgo.com | Lucila Sigal
By Lucila SigalBUENOS AIRES (Reuters) – In the impoverished Buenos Aires neighborhood of Villa 21-24, 68-year-old painter Heriberto Ayala still remembers how Pope Francis, then Jorge Mario Bergoglio, an archbishop, came to visit regularly on the number 70 bus and break bread with locals. He recalled one time sharing a beer. “We had pitchers of cold water and beer. And I, you see, grabbed it and said, ‘here you go, Father.’ But instead of passing him water, I passed him the beer.
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1 month ago | 
cp24.com | Horacio Soria |Lucila Sigal |Sarah Morland |Diane Craft
BUENOS AIRES - Fans of British singer Liam Payne on Sunday inaugurated a bench in his honor in the British Cemetery of Buenos Aires, where the former One Direction singer died after falling from the third floor of the hotel where he was staying. Benches in British parks and public spaces are often dedicated to lost loved ones, sometimes with personal, moving or even funny inscriptions.
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1 month ago | 
independent.ie | Lucila Sigal
Fans of Diego Maradona demand justice for late football icon as death trial begins in ArgentinaMaradona's ex-girlfriend, Veronica Ojeda, outside court in Buenos Aires. Photo: Agustin Marcarian/ReutersArgentina began a long-awaited trial yesterday of the medical team for football icon Diego Maradona, over four years after his death. The case has stirred emotions in the South American country where the World Cup winner is revered as a national hero.
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1 month ago | 
msn.com | Lucila Sigal
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