Tag: #MauricioMacri

  • Argentina tightens exchange controls to stem capital flight

    Buenos Aires, Oct 29 (AFP/APP): Argentina introduced strict exchange controls Monday to preserve depleting reserves as president-elect Alberto Fernandez and incumbent Mauricio Macri held talks, seeking to reassure investors over the country’s impending swing from market-friendly policies to protectionism. The country’s central bank said the currency exchange controls would help stem a surge in capital…

  • Argentine frontrunner calls for unity after presidential poll

    Buenos Aires, Oct 28 (AFP/APP): Argentina’s leftist presidential frontrunner Alberto Fernandez vowed Sunday to end sharp divisions between his Peronist movement and supporters of the business-friendly incumbent Mauricio Macri, as the country seeks to emerge from a crippling economic crisis. Exit polls put the 60-year-old lawyer, whose running mate is ex-president Cristina Kirchner, in the…