The United States Federal Reserve decided to raise its interest rate by 25 basis points, what happened in Uruguay?
Following the announcement made by the Federal Reserve (fed) of the USA of raise the interest rate by 25 basis points (0.25) after 3 in the afternoon, the dollar and bonds in US currency and Uruguayan pesos operated stable in the country according to data from the Electronic Stock Exchange of Uruguay (Bevsa).
The Fed’s actions occurred in the midst of the current panorama of financial uncertainty at a global level, about which some stockbrokers, consulted by scope.comconsidered contagion unlikely at the level of the local financial system due to its liquidity.
The dollar closed today’s afternoon without shocks, after the news from the Fed, showing a slight rise in the 0.09% which placed him in the 38,979 pesos. On the other hand, bonds in dollars, although they also suffered minor variations, were more significant than that of the US currency.
What was the price change of the dollar bonds?
- Global Bond 08/2024 — 0.11% — 100.1500
- Global Bond 09/2025 — 0.35% — 102.4930
- Global Bond 10/2027 — 0.24% — 100.0460
- Global Bond 01/2031 — 0% — 99.7500
- Global Bond 01/2033 — 0.21% — 124.8498
- Global Bond 10/2034 BIICC — 0% — 109.7500
- Global Bond 03/2036 — 0.13% — 126.0210
- Global Bond 11/2045 — -1.21% — 91.7531
- Global Bond 06/2050 — 0.06% — 101.1388
- Global Bond 04/2055 — 0.22% — 98.6853
The Global Bond 11/2045 presented the greatest negative variation, with a downward 1.21%, while the Global Bond 09/2025 the greatest positive, with 0.35%. The Global Bond 01/2031 and the Global Bond 10/2034 BIICC remained unchanged.
And the variation of the bonds in pesos?
Local currency bonds did not show large variations either:
- Global Bond 03/2028 — 0% — 94.0000
- Global Bond 05/2031 — -0.17% — 89.4000
All dollar bonds fell in February
All the global bonds in dollars registered falls in their prices in relation to the end of the previous month during February, the Global Bond 2045 was the one that fell the most with a -4.91%.
- Global Bond 2024 — 0%
- Global Bond 2027 — -2.10%
- Global Bond 2031 — -2.71%
- Global Bond 2033 — -3.23%
- Global Bond 2034 BIICC — -1.45%
- Global Bond 2036 — -3.26%
- Global Bond 2045 — -4.91%
- Global Bond 2050 — -4.04%
- Global Bond 2055 — -4.25%
Source: Ambito
