He dollar fell a 0.15% compared to yesterday, and remained in the 38,698 pesosaccording to the official interbank price of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU). Thus, the foreign currency has been below the floor of 39 pesos for 16 days.
on the blackboard of Republic Bank (BROU), the dollar was offered to 37.45 pesos for purchase and 40.05 pesos for sale. On the other hand, the preferential value of the Dollar eBROU He was in 37.95 pesos for purchase and 39.55 pesos for sale.
The last operation of the day in the Electronic Stock Exchange of Uruguay (Bevsa), was agreed in 38.71 pesos, while the average price of operations was 38,698 pesos. Today the number of transactions was a total of 28with an amount of operations of almost 14 million dollars.
The dollar accumulates a fall of 3.28% so far in 2023
After the roller coaster that March meant, the exchange rate closed the month with a fall of 0.63%. Now, in the first days of April it does not show a consolidated trend, so the accumulated figure for the month shows a positive variation of only 0.13%.
From the peak of Thursday, March 16 – the highest in the two months up to then – the dollar began a marked downward path: of the last 11 exchange days of last month, the currency depreciated in nine of them and, with As a result, the expectations that March would neutralize the strong drop in January (-3.25%) were buried.
With the practically sustained fall of the last two weeks, the currency He returned to the 38-peso range, in which he had not been since February, and since then he has not managed to exceed the threshold of 39 pesos. Now, in fact, it is just over $0.31 away from it.
This way, so far in 2023 the foreign currency accumulates a fall of 3.43%. Regarding last March 5, the monthly variation registered is from 1.85% in red.
While, compared to the same day but last year -April 5, 2022-, when the exchange rate was 41,428 pesos, the interanual variation is from 6.59% negative. It has been a great number of months since this variable was positioned at these levels.
The year-on-year indicator fell sharply in recent weeks, mainly because, by then –beginning of 2022–, the dollar had already begun to fall after reaching the historical peaks it had registered in the first weeks of last year. Meanwhile, now, the year-on-year variation remains balanced and collapses every time the current exchange rate rises.
Source: Ambito
