The American currency rose again, in a global context convulsed by Donald Trump’s tariffs.
He dollar rose 0.04% compared to Monday and closed 43,514 pesos, according to the price of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU), with which the American currency added two upward days for the first time in almost a month and is in a value that did not reach almost two weeks ago.
The green ticket moves to the rise at the beginning of February, with an improvement of 0.91%, after adding four consecutive weekly casuals in the previous one and ending January with its first monthly decline in nine months. Thus, so far this year, the dollar accumulates a 1.25% setback with respect to the closure of 2024.
On the reference board of the Republic Bank (Brou), he dollar Retail ticket offered 42.30 pesos for purchase and 44.70 pesos for sale. For its part, the preferential value of the Ebrou dollar It was at 42.80 pesos for the purchase and in 44.20 pesos for sale.
The closure price in the Uruguay Electronic Stock Exchange (Bevsa) It was 43,470 pesos, while the maximum price was 43,600 pesos, and the minimum of 43,470 pesos. A total of 86 transactions were made, with an amount of operations for more than 44 million dollars.
The crypto Tether (USDT), of parity 1 to 1 with the dollartraded today in an average of 47.23 pesos for the purchase in line with a bank account or by card, and from the 45.94 pesos to the 47.87 pesos in the Peer-To-Peer market (P2P) of Binance.
The dollar moves in a convulsed global stage
The fortress of the American currency in the local exchange market contrasted with what happened internationally, with a global dollar that retreated as tariff threats of Donald Trump They were interpreted as a negotiation tactic rather than as a final objective, one day after the proposals against Mexico and Canada.
Thus, after the increase on Monday, the dollar index fell on Tuesday about 0.4%, at times where the Trump administration imposed 10% tariffs on imports from China, to which the government of Xi Jinping He responded with measures of the same tenor.
“It is clear that Trump wants to negotiate,” he told Reuters Marcus Widen, SEB economist, while arguing that “at the same time, there is a basic idea that tariff income should finance tax cuts and, from that perspective, one might ask if it is possible to go back in tariff plans every time.”
The dollar in the last days
- January 28 – 43,368
- January 29 – 43,257
- January 30 – 43,330
- January 31 – 43,122
- February 3 – 43,495
Source: Ambito
