Dec. 16 (Bloomberg) -- Argentina’s economy expanded 9.3 percent in the third quarter from a year earlier, the national statistics agency reported today in Buenos Aires.

Gross domestic product in the three-months through September rose 1.1 percent from the second quarter, the report said.

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