LatinNews Daily - 17 December 2025

*Argentina’s economy ministry has released its fiscal statistics for November, showing that the public sector registered a primary surplus of Ar$2.13tn (US$1.47bn) and a financial surplus of Ar$599.95bn. This is up 158.5% from a primary surplus of Ar$823.93bn in October, and 15.9% from a financial surplus of Ar$517.67bn. In year-on-year terms the primary surplus was up 54.0% from Ar$1.38tn in November 2024, while the financial surplus was up 68.0% from Ar$357.16bn. Net debt interest payments in November totalled Ar$1.53tn, up 49.2% year-on-year. With these results, the public sector has registered a financial surplus equivalent to approximately 0.6% of GDP, with a primary surplus of around 1.7% of GDP, in the first 11 months of the year.

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