Surprise in the External Sector: Mining Beats Energy in Dollar Generation · Global Voices

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Although energy is the star sector of the Argentine economy due to its rapid growth in foreign exchange generation, in April there was a surprise: impacted by the fall in international oil prices, the income of dollars from the energy sector decreased and was surpassed by mining, which experienced the opposite effect.The rise in gold and silver prices benefited this sector notably.According to the latest report of the exchange rate balance of th…