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2018-12-19 Caribbean-Latin America
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Argentina in recession as economy shrinks again
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 [PULSE.NG] Argentina
...a country located on the other side of the Deep South. It is covered with Pampers and inhabited by Grouchos, who dance the Tangle. They used to have some islands called the Malvinas located where the Falklands are now. They're not supposed to cry for Evita...
is in recession after it's economy shrank by 3.5 percent during the third trimester of 2018, the state statistics bureau said on Tuesday.
It was the second such shrinkage in a row after the economy shrank 4.0 percent in the second quarter, with respect to the same period a year ago.
Gross domestic product is down by 1.4 percent from January to September compared with 2017.
The hardest hit sectors were business (down 8.9 percent), fishing (-7.3 percent) and manufacturing (-6.6). But finance was up by 5.1 percent.
Argentina has been gripped by an economic crisis this year that forced President Mauricio Macri to agree a $56 billion bailout loan with the International Monetary Fund (IMF).
It came as confidence in the peso crumbled, sending the currency into a freefall that saw it lose half its value against the dollar.
The IMF predicts that Argentina's economy will shrink by 2.6 percent this year and another 1.6 percent in 2019. 
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