The exchange measures announced on Tuesday night by the Central Bank (BCRA) produced damage in the power of intervention on the so-called "financial dollars" that the government had achieved with the debt swaps, besides affecting the patrimony of the public entities that participated in that operation. The abrupt devaluation of up to 15% that the new debt bonds suffered after the announcements caused an accounting loss of about $1.2 billion in the holdings of some $24 billion exchanged by the BCRA and the Sustainability Guarantee Fund (FGS), which administers the Anses, the two official entities that had the most significant participation in the restructuring.
Day: September 21, 2020
Government seeks to add 700,000 hectares of peri-urban land with robotics and nanotechnology
The government is seeking to add 700,000 periurban hectares guaranteeing zero drift with robotics, sensors, weather station, applied agtech and, among them, nanotechnology in agrochemicals. It plans to produce 200 million tons of cereals, oilseeds and legumes.
Government announces funding for biotechnology development
The Government is committed to the sector and will carry out a development plan that will reach 350 million pesos for next year. The announcement will be part of the 60 measures to reactivate production. The disbursements will deliver as Non-Reimbursable Contributions through the biotechnology law.
The government should deactivate the conflict to encourage foreign currency liquidation for $12 billion
Just when soybeans reached their maximum value in two years, getting a FOB price in local ports of $434 per ton, and in a context in which there are still some 18.3 million tons to be sold and another 8 million tons with a price to be fixed, which imply $12 billion in foreign currency to enter the national coffers, the new restrictions paralyzed the grain market.
Country risk is already up 14%
On September 10, JP Morgan Bank rebalanced the Argentine country risk based on the prices of the new bonds, the index fell almost 50% and placed at 1,101 units. The new restrictions announced by the Central Bank (BCRA) and the National Securities Commission (CNV) affected the quotations of the sovereign instruments issued for the exchange and brought the surcharge that Argentina must pay to get into debt to 1,258 points, an increase of 14.26% in only eight days.
