RE: FT Article on Milei - Snippets11 Dec 2024 08:01
Investors are bullish nonetheless. Argentina’s country risk — the premium over US Treasuries that investors demand to hold its bonds — has dropped from more than 2,000 basis points to about 750 since Milei took office, on growing expectations that Argentina will meet its 2025 debt repayments.
But Eduardo Levy Yeyati, an economist who advised the centre-right Macri government, cautions that Argentina has had “many successful stabilisation plans” that later failed.
Milei would need to succeed on growth, reserves and inflation at the same time, before “we can start thinking about a country that may no longer be stuck in that loop”, he adds.
“In Argentina, it’s always premature to call the end of the crisis.”