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The change of guard in the United States is unlikely to change significantly foreign policy towards Argentina. We do not expect softening policies in the IMF as a result. There could be some benefit from a weaker dollar and therefore a rise in the price of commodities. Soybeans have surged in the last months and are...

On the back of the debt exchange the government had an opportunity to jumpstart the economy. But Argentina is the country that never misses an opportunity to miss an opportunity. The government was expecting that the deal would be a turning point, which in turn would help to reduce the spread with the blue-chip swap...

The government finally seems to be approaching an agreement with the main bondholders on the debt and it is also relaxing the lockdown. The big question now is how the economy will perform in the new environment, as the economic challenges are still enormous and the policy tools limited.  

The sanitary emergency caused by the novel Coronavirus has thrown the world into disarray, crashing international markets and putting governments to the test. To face the inevitable recession, most developed countries have announced historical fiscal and monetary stimulus packages. Their Latin American counterparts,...