: ARS=BCRA). The Methodology is described in Comunicacion 43500, March 1st 2002. The BCRA solicits bid/ask quotes via the SIOPEL system of the MAE (Mercado Abierto Electronico), in three rounds of 15 minutes between 10am-11am, 12pm-lpm and 2pm-3pm. The fixing is obtained as the arithmetic average of the fixings in each of