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  • 23/12/2012 | Argentina

    Dollars restrictions will continue in 2013, CB's head says

    Central Bank Governor Mercedes Marcó del Pont said that Argentina "has no shortage of dollars", thus defending the government’s restrictions on the purchase of any foreign currencies.

  • 05/07/2012 | Argentina

    CB officially bans purchase of dollars for saving purposes

    The Central Bank announced it will officially ban the purchase of dollars for savings, the latest in a series of measures to discourage the buying of greenbacks.

  • 06/07/2012 | Argentina

    Marcó del Pont defends new dollar restrictions

    Following the official new curbs on dollar purchasing for savers, the head of the Central Bank Mercedes Marcó del Pont came on stage to defend the measure.

  • 19/10/2012 | Argentina

    Former CB head predicts emerging economies will recuperate by 2014

    The former president of the Central Bank (BCRA) Mario Blejer assured today that the international crisis was “not over” and that the recuperation of emerging economies would settle itself by mid-2014.

  • 14/03/2012 | Argentina

    Lower House approves CB charter reform bill

    In a general session, the Lower House passed a bill looking to amend the Central Bank's charter, which will be able to free up funds in order to pay off debt and cover the costs of the Treasury.

  • 25/03/2012 | Argentina

    'It is totally false that printing money causes inflation,' Central Bank Governor

    Central Bank of Argentina Governor (BCRA in Spanish), Mercedes Marcó del Pont, stressed the importance of bank’s charter reform as “it will provide the government more tools to deepen the development model and to give priority to investment credit.”

  • 26/04/2012 | Argentina

    Gov’t to use US$5.7 billion of Central Bank’s reserves to pay off debt

    The government announced today a treasury bill of up to $5.7 billion to be bought in several installments to pay for the country’s debt.

  • 02/03/2012 | Argentina

    Aníbal Fernández: 'The Central Bank should have more power to preserve real economy'

    Kirchnerite Senator Aníbal Fernández today defended a reform of the Central Bank's charter explaining "it needs to have more powers to preserve monetary and fiscal policies, production and real economy."

  • 07/03/2012 | Argentina

    Marcó del Pont: 'Central Bank's reform will help fight inflation'

    Central Bank Governor Mercedes Marcó del Pont today visited the Congress to deliver before three committees a report on a reform to the Central Bank's charter.

  • 09/03/2012 | Argentina

    Central Bank head meets with regional pairs

    Central Bank head Mercedes Marcó del Pont received finance officials from within the Mercosur and other countries in the region, in order to debate regional monetary policies and the impact of the international crisis.

  • 28/10/2011 | Argentina

    Central Bank defends new rules on exchange market

    Central Bank vice-president Miguel Pesce, sustained today that the new controls put in place on dollars was directed at “avoiding abuse in the market.” The Central Bank vice-head also made it clear retail buyers who are able to justify their income “won’t have a problem” buying dollars.

  • 31/10/2011 | Argentina

    CB states economy will grow 'near 9%' this year

    The Central Bank foresees that the country’s economic growth will “be near 9 percent” in 2011, over the 8.3 percent estimated by the government, according to a quarterly report issued by CB Governor Mercedes Marcó del Pont.

  • 11/11/2011 | Argentina

    CB to make dollar availability more flexible

    Argentina’s Central Bank (CB) approved a new measure to make flexible the minimum dollar requirement that the banks have to deposit in the monetary body, making the answer to the client’s demands easier.

  • 25/08/2011 | Argentina

    Marcó del Pont assures ‘banking system is in its best historical levels’

    Central Bank’s Governor (BCRA) Mercedes Marcó del Pont assured that the Argentine banking system “is in its best historical levels of liquidity, solvency and sluggishness indexes,” referring to Moody’s report.

  • 22/09/2011 | Argentina

    Marcó del Pont dismisses IMF's warning on overheating economies

    Central Bank Governor Mercedes Marcó del Pont dismissed the International Monetary Fund’s (IMF) warning on the risk of overheating economies in developing countries, while visiting Washington, where she is attending the IMF-World Bank summit.

  • 26/10/2011 | Argentina

    Gov't urges insurance companies to repatriate funds, oil , mining firms to liquidate exports

    In another attempt to ease the pressure on the dollar and decrease the outflow of the Central Bank's foreign currency reserves, the government urged oil and mining companies to liquidate the country’s exports and insurance companies to repatriate their foreign investments.

  • 29/12/2010 | Argentina

    Opposition rejects Gov't use of BCRA reserves

    Members of the opposition blasted the government’s authorization for the use of 7.5 billion dollars of the reserves of the Central Bank (BCRA) assigned to the payment of foreign debt in 2011 published in the Official Gazette, calling it a “shameful” measure.

  • 12/02/2011 | Argentina

    Redrado blasts Timerman’s outburst, compares him to Galtieri’s gov’t

    Former Central Bank Governor Martín Redrado harshly criticized Foreign Minister Héctor Timerman for his uproar over the US training courses attended by officers of the Metropolitan Police force. Redrado compared him to the de facto President Galtieri and recommended him to read Charles Talleyrand.

  • 12/04/2011 | Argentina

    Fixed term deposits grow 34% in March

    Private sectors’ fixed term deposits grew 34 percent in March compared to the volume reported during the same period last year and it has reached its highest point in the last seven years, according to the Central Bank.

  • 17/07/2012 | World

    'Euro zone must share sovereignty in deeper union,' ECB

    The euro zone will have to get powers to limit the debt issuance of its members, intervene in national budgets and change national policies to build a deeper economic union, ECB Executive Board Member Joerg Asmussen said.

  • 23/07/2012 | World

    Spain's Central Bank says economy sank deeper into recession in second quarter

    Spain's economy sank deeper into recession in the second quarter, its central bank said as investors spooked by an undeclared funding crisis in its regions pushed the country ever closer to a full bailout.

  • 24/10/2012 | World

    Fed sticks to stimulus plan, says economy a bit firmer

    The Federal Reserve stuck to its plan to keep stimulating US growth until the job market improves even as it acknowledged some parts of the economy were looking a bit better.

  • 13/07/2011 | World

    Bernanke says Fed ready to ease if economy flags

    Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke said the central bank is ready to ease monetary policy further if the economy weakens and inflation moves lower, suggesting policymakers are actively mulling further stimulus.

  • 21/05/2012 | World

    Former Central Bank’s Sarrazin spurs controversy in Germany

    Former German central banker Thilo Sarrazin, whose musings on Muslim immigrants sparked outrage in 2010, has triggered fresh controversy with a book that paints Germany as the euro zone's hostage, forced to pay out vast sums to atone for the Holocaust.

  • 06/06/2012 | World

    Fed: More upbeat on economy in Beige Book

    Economic growth in the United States picked up over the last two months and hiring showed signs of a "modest increase," the Federal Reserve said in a report that ran counter to a growing sense of economic gloom.

  • 02/03/2011 | Latin America

    Brazil output in January above forecast, yields rise

    Industrial output in Brazil rose in January from December despite forecasts for a drop, adding to potential pressure on the country's central bank for an aggressive interest rate hike later in the day.


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