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Argentina Raises Key Rate to 40%, Bringing Economic Uncertainty
BUENOS AIRES — Since his 2015 election, President
Mauricio Macri has pushed to reconnect Argentina to the
global financial system, after years of isolation.
His approach — emphasizing lower tariffs, accurate
economic data, trade pacts and the freer flow of capital —
was largely aimed at coaxing foreign investment back to
Argentina and ending the economic exile that followed the
country’s default in 2001.
But over the last week, Argentina has been reminded that
when capital is free to flow in, it can also flow out, creating
profound economic implications.
With foreign investors pulling their money en masse,
Argentina’s central bank was forced to take drastic action
to stabilize the country’s currency. On Friday, policymakers
lifted the benchmark interest rate to 40 percent after days
of intervening heavily in financial markets.
While it helped settle the markets, the move will weigh
on the prospects for the president’s ambitious economic
overhaul. It also has the potential to crimp growth, adding
to political discontent.
The rate increase, a day after the Argentine peso fell 8.5
percent against the dollar, was the third in a week. The
central bank said it would use “all the tools at its disposal”
to slow inflation, which in March was up 25 percent from a
year earlier, to 15 percent this year, a goal most analysts
now see as unrealistic.
In parallel, officials announced that they would cut
government spending, and reduce the primary budget
deficit to 2.7 percent, from the earlier goal of 3.2 percent.
Their decision was seen as a response to criticism from
investors that Mr. Macri’s government had not been cutting
spending quickly enough.
Mr. Macri was sworn into office in December 2015. Argentina
had been closed to international markets for more than a
decade amid a long-running legal fight with bondholders
that followed a default on its debt.
Early on, Mr. Macri’s policies were greeted with widespread
optimism by financial markets, which gobbled up the
country’s newly issued bonds.
POLITI, D. MATT, P Argentina Raises Key Rate to 40%, Bringing
Economic Uncertainty. The New York Times, 2018. Disponível em: <https:// www.nytimes.com/2018/05/04/business/economy/argentina-economyinterest-rates.html?rref=collection%2Fsectioncollection%2Famericas&actio n=click&contentCollection=americas®ion=stream&module=stream_unit &version=latest&contentPlacement=8&pgtype=sectionfront>
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containment action was taken by officials?