Silence is not health the CEO of a supermarket chain thundered yesterday when he was informed of a list with 20% adjustment. The CEO has ordered to enter in the early warning system of the Ministry of Commerce and report the supplier. The name of the chain and the supplier are kept in reserve at the express request of the protagonists, but it is a symptom of the nervousness that is being experienced in these days of financial tension.

The strategy of the companies defines the replacement price day by day on the basis of sales commitments which are calculated on the basis of variable costs based on supplies, wages and logistics. “The blanket is very short because it cannot be raised too high not even because the customers are lost. Today we are a on the defensive, we try not to lose”, They pointed out in an auto parts company.

The funny thing is that there low expectation on the next steps. Despite the fact that they acknowledge to the government that in the end there were no gas cuts in the industries and this tamed the diesel crisis.

“The gap between official and parallel it is unbearable and complicates the import and export price “he says Clarione Daniel Funes de Rioja, president of the UIA. He speaks of common sense and proposes a mechanism for accessing strategic inputs that today are agreed in the future dollar in Rofex or in alternative dollars “generating uncertainty and higher costs. Volatility conspires against predictability “Zoom in.

Funes de Rioja has just returned from Brazil on a mission led by Minister Scioli and is enthusiastic about this possibility negotiate bilateral exchanges with the main Argentine partner in local currency. “There is a decision,” says the owner of Copal, which brings together food companies. He was even surprised when José Gomes da Silva, son of Lula’s first vice president, proposed doing a joint white paper on Mercosur.

Last Tuesday, Adelmo Gabbi celebrated a new stock market anniversary, which for the first time, no officials attended. They made a void, despite Gabbi commenting that the companies’ financial statements in the first half are reasonably good. And he mentioned Comercial del Plata, Ferrum, Longvie.

“Investors don’t trust our country, but they trust our companies”Gabbi said. He was told by a comrade. “This is already a thing of the past. Capital is a coward and today it asks what happens to the pilots “. In this line, José Urtubey of Celulosa released: “It is necessary political consensus, the landscape is black ”. With this gap, although there is no obvious shortage, “the whole commercial chain is suffering “infiltrate the Chamber of Commerce.

For the former Minister of Industry, Dante Sica, “the government has lost political capacity. It has few tools and cannot find the escape valves in a scenario where the next elections are 15 months away ”.

Sica notes that companies are paying off debts, using pesos to buy assets such as real estate in what it is at generalized logic to save yourself as much as possible.