YPF upgraded to Hold from Reduce at HSBC

HSBC upgraded YPF (YPF) to Hold from Reduce with a price target of $33, up from $21. On Friday night, the Argentinean government and IMF confirmed a four-year Extended Fund Facility of $20B, including the lifting of almost all capital controls, elimination of export currency blend and flexibilization of currency access for imports, the analyst tells investors in a research note. The firm views this as a “big step towards economic normalization.”