Argentina

Argentina’s Bank Giant Skyrockets: Why Grupo Financiero Galicia (GGAL) Is Soaring in 2025

(All figures USD for ADR unless noted. GGAL is an American Depositary Receipt on Nasdaq, representing shares of Grupo Financiero Galicia S.A., an Argentine company.) A Rollercoaster Year for GGAL Stock It’s been a wild 12-month ride for Grupo Financiero Galicia’s stock. In late 2024, GGAL surged to a 52-week high of $74 amid investor euphoria over Argentina’s new pro-market government finviz.com. In November 2023, libertarian outsider Javier Milei won Argentina’s presidency, sparking hopes of economic reform europarl.europa.eu. International analysts upgraded GGAL aggressively – for example, Morgan Stanley boosted its target to $92 and JPMorgan to $54 as 2024 ended

10 October 2025

Trump’s $20B Argentina Lifeline Shocks Markets – Will It Save Milei?

Details of the US Support Package President Trump’s Treasury used its seldom-invoked crisis tools to prop up Argentina. The centerpiece is a $20 billion currency swap line between the US and Argentina’s central banks reuters.com – effectively a short-term dollar loan facility. In parallel, Treasury officials have directly bought pesos in open markets (in undisclosed amounts) to blunt the currency’s slide. Bessent announced these steps on Oct. 9 after several days of intensive talks in Washington with Economy Minister Luis Caputo (with IMF officials present) reuters.com aljazeera.com. On Truth Social, Bessent hailed Argentina’s “strong economic fundamentals” and Milei’s tough austerity

10 October 2025

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