The government says three million more people than usual need financial handouts.

Creditors may have to suffer losses as Argentina struggles to avoid defaulting on $100bn worth of loans.

After eight months in office, Argentine President Javier Milei has slashed spending on social security, wages and subsidies. But despite these austerity measures, he remains largely popular at home.

Argentina's Economy Minister Sergio Massa surprised pundits Sunday night by taking 37% of the presidential vote, forcing a second-round ballot next month with runner-up Javier Milei, the firebrand libertarian outsider who got 30% support...

Argentina's leading presidential candidate Javier Milei talks with Bloomberg about dollarization and his pledge to close the nation's central bank ahead of the election. This interview is in Spanish.



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Argentina's leading presidential candidate Javier Milei pledges to close the nation's central bank while saying he would make every effort to avoid a default on the country's sovereign debt if he wins the October vote. Milei speaks with...

Argentina's central bank has hiked interest rates and policy makers have devalued the peso to curb market chaos following the shock primary win by libertarian candidate Javier Milei. Patrick Gillespie reports on Bloomberg Television.

Argentinians have cast ballots for a crucial primary election that will provide a barometer of expectations for the general vote in October. The elections are taking place as the South American nation faces high inflation and a likely...

"An abrupt devaluation would be a problem for Argentina," President Alberto Fernandez says during an interview with Maria Tadeo on Bloomberg TV. (In Spanish with English translation.)



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Britain and Argentina have begun to heal the wounds left by their 1982 war over the still- disputed Falkland Isl
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Carlos Menem became the first Argentine president to visit...

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Britain's Prince Andrew arrived in Argentina on Tuesday on the first official visit by a member of the British royal family since the 1982 Falklands
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But the Prince's visit is drawing...

Argentine President Cristina Fernandez was in Beijing on Wednesday, the day after investigators said they found a draft warrant for her arrest in the home of a dead prosecutor in Buenos Aires.

Kirchner was...

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The Argentine President Carlos Menem has begun his first visit to Russia, hoping to increase trade and co-operation between the two countries into the next cen
tury.
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At the end of the first day of his historic visit to Great Britain, Argentinian President Carlos Menem spoke of a new spirit of reconciliation between the two count
ries.
During a speech at...

As Argentina President Cristina Fernandez recovers from surgery for a cranial blood clot, thousands of her supporters marched on Thursday in the capital to mark Peronist Loyalty Day and to wish the...