Analysts raise Argentina 2022 inflation forecast to 72.6% - central bank
Reuters
Published Jun 03, 2022 06:12PM ET
BUENOS AIRES (Reuters) - Analysts consulted by Argentina's central bank raised their inflation estimate for the South American country for 2022 to 72.6%, 7.5 percentage points above the previous month's forecast, according to a monthly survey published Friday.
Meanwhile, inflation for the month of May was expected to have been at 5.2%, according to the central bank's monthly Market Expectations Survey (REM).
The poll surveyed 41 analysts over several days.
The economists consulted also slightly cut their economic growth projection for Argentina in 2022 to 3.3%, a contraction of 0.2 percentage points.
Latin America's third largest economy has been suffering from extreme inflation for years, and has been aggravated by the effects of Russia's invasion of Ukraine.
Argentina has just begun to emerge from a long recession.
The economists surveyed also expect the average nominal exchange rate in Argentina to hit 157.97 pesos per dollar in December.
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