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BUENOS AIRES/LONDON (Reuters) -Argentina's government devalued its currency by nearly 18% on Monday while the benchmark interest rate was raised by 21 percentage points to 118%, the central bank ...
María Barro, a 65-year-old domestic worker in Buenos Aires, buys a few dollars each month with her peso salary, a hedge against Argentina's persistent inflation now running at over 100% and a ...
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Afterwards, it went from a 3:1 exchange rate with the US dollar in 2003 to 178:1 in early 2023. On 14 August 2023, the official exchange rate was fixed at ARS$350 to one US dollar; the unregulated rate valued the peso at ARS$665 to one US dollar. [5] On 15 November 2023, the crawling peg was restored. [6] USD/Argentine Peso exchange rate
USD to Argentine peso exchange rates, 1976–1991 USD to Argentine peso exchange rate, 1991–2022. The following table contains the monthly historical exchange rate of the different currencies of Argentina, expressed in Argentine currency units per United States dollar. [citation needed] The exchange rate at the end of each month is expressed in:
Later in 2018, the Federal Reserve of the United States increased interest rates from 0.25% to 1.75% and then 2%. This caused investors to return to the United States, leaving emerging markets. The effect, a rise in the price of the United States dollar, was modest in most countries, but it was felt particularly strongly in Argentina, Brazil ...
Argentina's 2023 annual inflation was the highest in the world at 211.4%. [42] In January 2024, Argentina’s poverty rate reached 57.4%, the highest poverty rate in the country since 2004. [43] Because of Milei's policies, the monthly inflation rate dropped to 2.4% in December 2024, marking an end to Argentina's period of hyperinflation. [44]
Because Argentina’s inflation rate is so high – just this week new data revealed prices had risen 142% from 2023 – the proposal has attracted interest from foreign institutions as well.