Argentina's annual inflation soars above 250% in January

Monthly inflation stood at 20.6 percent in January, the INDEC statistics agency said, down from the 25.5 percent figure for December.

Demonstrators gather outside the Congress while Argentine lawmakers debate on President Javier Milei's controversial ultra-liberal bill of economic reforms in Buenos Aires on February 6, 2024. Argentina's monthly inflation slowed slightly in January, but the prices of key goods and services rose 254 percent year-on-year, the statistics agency said on Wednesday. AFP