The risk rating company ran its growth projections for Latin America in 2025.
The Moody’s risk ratingrifier highlighted the slowdown in inflation in Argentina so far this year and improved his prospects for the rest of the region in terms of the growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP).
This Monday, Moody’s shared its economic panorama report for Latin Americawhere He rose his projections in December 2024 for the GENERAL GDPwhich went from 2.1%to 2.2%, after the first quarter the regional economy advanced 3.1%.
As for the Argentinathe qualifier highlighted the “financial stabilization” and the strong decline in inflation since last year, and said that although The Argentine economy faces some challengesthis “solid recovery” could be extended until 2026, with improvements in inflation, jobs and fiscal accounts.
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Among the main risks, Moody’s remarks that October legislative elections As a turning point, where an adverse result to the government can lead to “significant consequences” on economic policy.
However, the planned growth of the Argentine economy exceeds the regional average, and supposes the “positive surprise” of the year, despite the latent exchange pressure and dependence on external financing.
Argentina’s GDP will grow 5.2% in 2025 and inflation will be greater than 40%
In the future, Moody’s projects that Argentine GDP 3.5% will grow, that is, 1.7 percentage points less than 5.2% estimated by 2025, and that will do another 3.5% in 2027.
As for the inflationthey foresee an annual accumulated of 40.8% by 2025 and 23.7% by 2026. For their part, the interest rate would be in the order of 30.5% by the end of the year, and 23.5% by 2026.
Source: Ambito
