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Viewing cable 09BUENOSAIRES1157, ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER

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09BUENOSAIRES1157 2009-10-23 14:34 2011-08-25 00:00 UNCLASSIFIED//FOR OFFICIAL USE ONLY Embassy Buenos Aires
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UNCLAS SECTION 01 OF 02 BUENOS AIRES 001157 
 
SENSITIVE 
SIPDIS 
 
E.O. 12958: N/A 
TAGS: EFIN ECON EINV ETRD ELAB EAIR AR
SUBJECT: ARGENTINA ECONOMIC AND FINANCIAL REVIEW, OCTOBER 
16-22, 2009 
 
REF: BUENOS AIRES 1137 
 
1. (U) Provided below is Embassy Buenos Aires' Economic and 
Financial Review covering the period October 16-22, 2009. The 
unclassified email version of this report includes tables and 
charts tracking Argentine economic developments. Contact Econ 
OMS Megan Walton at WaltonM@state.gov to be included on the 
email distribution list. This document is sensitive but 
unclassified. It should not be disseminated outside of USG 
channels or in any public forum without the written 
concurrence of the originator. It should not be posted on the 
internet. 
 
Debt 
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U.S. Court rules in Argentina's favor on frozen ANSES assets 
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2.  (SBU) The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit in 
New York ruled October 15 that a lower court judge erred in 
attaching assets for about $200 million held in the U.S. by 
GoA's state retirement agency (Administracion Nacional de la 
Seguridad Social or ANSES). These funds were originally in 
private pension funds (AFJPs) portfolio, and were transferred 
to ANSES after GoA's decision to nationalize them. The order 
of attachment had been issued by U.S. District Court Judge 
Thomas Griesa of the Southern District of New York on 
December 11, 2008, who considered that the funds were subject 
to attachment to satisfy the claims of holdout creditors 
(that did not participate in the 2005 debt reconstructing). 
However, the Court of Appeals considered that the funds were 
not subject to attachment given that the Republic of 
Argentina or ANSESs did not have the opportunity "to use the 
funds for any commercial activity whatsoever" a requirement 
for the attachment under the Foreign Sovereign Immunities 
Act.  After this ruling, ANSES will be able to repatriate 
these funds to Argentina. 
 
Trade 
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September trade surplus: worst monthly balance of the year 
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3.  (SBU) On October 20, INDEC announced that the September 
trade surplus reached $996 million, lower than the $1.4 
billion expected by private analysts and still lower than the 
$1.6 billion achieved last year.  During the month, exports 
declined 34% y-o-y to $4.6 billion and imports dropped 31% 
y-o-y to $3.6 billion.  The decline in imports is due to very 
weak domestic activity as well as a number of import trade 
restrictions and the impact of a weaker peso.  The 
year-over-year decline of exports reflects in part a high 
basis of comparison as export volumes jumped in August and 
September 2008 following the end of the GoA-Ag conflict.  In 
September, export quantities declined by 17% y-o-y, while 
export prices dropped 20% y-o-y.  One the other hand, the 31% 
decline in imports was driven by a 15% decline in volumes and 
a 19% drop in prices.  In spite of the 25% and 38 % 
accumulated fall in exports and imports, respectively, the 
trade surplus in the first nine months of the year increased 
$13.3 billion, and is expected to close the year at $16 
billion, according to private estimates. 
 
Economic Outlook 
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August monthly economic activity index up 1.0% y-o-y 
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4.  (SBU) The National Statistics Agency (INDEC) announced 
October 16 that EMAE (the Monthly Economic activity index - a 
proxy for real GDP growth) increased 1.0% y-o-y in August, 
following a -1.5% y-o-y fall both in June and July.  This 
increase was also stronger than the 0.4% y-o-y drop private 
forecasters expected INDEC to announce.  In the first eight 
months of the year, EMAE increased a cumulative 0.2% y-o-y, 
which contradicts leading micro indicators and sector-level 
data that suggest a severe y-o-y contraction of activity to 
date.  For example, imports declined a major 37% y-o-y and 
fiscal tax collection declined significantly in y-o-y real 
terms during January-August 2009.  Most independent private 
sector estimates and surveys show that the economy has 
clearly been contracting since the fourth quarter 2008 and 
 
BUENOS AIR 00001157  002 OF 002 
 
 
estimate that GDP will contact by 2-3% in 2009. 
 
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Inflation expectations remained unchanged at 20% in October 
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5.  (SBU) On October 19, the Finance Research Center of Di 
Tella University reported that inflation expectations for the 
next twelve months remained at 20% in October, similar to 
September's survey.  The gap between Di Tella's inflation 
expectations survey and the BCRA consensus survey, which 
estimates the next twelve months "official" inflation 
(INDEC-reported) at 6.8%, reached  13.2 percentage points. 
The wide gap shows that INDEC's estimates are strongly 
distrusted by analysts.  Inflation expectations have kept 
steady during the whole year, hovering around 20%, except in 
the months of February and August when they jumped to 25%. 
MARTINEZ