"We look forward to working with the central bank and the new government on this matter", they said.
Lifting capital controls that have limited access to dollars and fusing a multi-tiered exchange rate may lead to a sharp devaluation which, while needed to restore trade competitiveness, will affect consumer prices, so small moves are preferred over more aggressive ones and lifting currency curbs will have to be staggered. Like Macri, he went to school at the elite Cardinal Newman College in Buenos Aires.
Official results gave Macri 51.8 percent of the votes and 48.2 percent for Scioli, with 95 percent of ballots counted.
Macri called Sunday "a historic day" and said the election was "the changing of an era".
"Argentina today doesn't have credible information on the economy", said Macri, criticizing the Fernandez administration for widely discredited statistics on everything from inflation to poverty rates.
American Airlines, however, will continue accepting payments from customers in Argentina made on foreign credit cards, the agent said.
For more than 12 years, "Kirchnerism", marked by strict currency controls, trade protectionism, heavy taxes on agricultural exports and widespread allegations of systemic corruption, has been the dominant political discourse in Argentina, with Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner succeeding her late husband, Nestor Kirchner, to the top job.
Following his electoral victory Sunday, rightwing millionaire Macri reiterated his intention to seek the suspension of Venezuela from MERCOSUR under the bloc's democratic clause, citing allegations of "abuses" and "persecution" of the country's opposition.
According to the Prime Minister's Office, Macri told Netanyahu that Argentina's stance toward Israel is about to change for the better and that cooperation between the two countries in various areas will expand. Mr Macri will be sworn in on Dec 10.
"The expectation of major change involves economic decisions as well as political".
For the first time since 2002, the last name of Argentina's president won't be Kirchner. "I have faith Macri will be an honest politician". "For Mauricio (Macri) it has been one of the most successful policies of Cristina's government".
A major plank of Fernandez's foreign policy has been her failed effort to open talks with Great Britain over the sovereignty of the Falkland Islands, which are close to Argentina in the South Atlantic but governed by the British. Private companies, meanwhile, have had trouble attracting foreign investment due to fears of nationalization: In 2012, the government re-nationalized the state oil firm YPF, which it had privatized in 1999 by selling a stake to the Spanish firm Repsol.
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