The US currency accumulates an increase of 0.72% so far in April and its negative year-on-year variation fell to 5.29%.
He dollar went up a 0.27% compared to yesterday, and remained in the 38,949 pesosaccording to the official interbank price of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU). So, after more than three weeks below the floor of 39 pesosthe foreign currency was very close to that threshold.
on the blackboard of Republic Bank (BROU), the dollar was offered to 37.7 pesos for purchase and 40.3 pesos for sale. On the other hand, the preferential value of the Dollar eBROU He was in 38.2 pesos for purchase and 39.8 pesos for sale.
The last operation of the day in the Electronic Stock Exchange of Uruguay (Bevsa), was agreed in 38.98 pesos, while the average price of operations was 38,949 pesos. Today the number of transactions was a total of 27with an amount of operations of just over $13.5 million.
The dollar accumulates a fall of 2.8% so far in 2023
In the first two weeks of April, the exchange rate showed slight variations both downwards and upwards. However, it remains stable with a positive cumulative variation of the 0.78%although very far from neutralizing the drop in January (-3.25%), paid for by the drop of 0.63% in March.
With the practically sustained collapse of the last few 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. In fact, they go over three weeks where you can’t do it. However, with today’s raise, she was only $0.05 short of it.
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Thus, regarding last March 14, the monthly variation registered is from 0.76% in red. Almost a month ago, the dollar hit its highest in the two months up to then – on Thursday, March 16 – but from there, it began a sharp downward path.
So far in 2023 the foreign currency accumulates a drop of 2.8%. While, compared to the same day but last year -April 14, 2022-, when the exchange rate was 41,128 pesos, the interanual variation is from 5.29% negative. It has been a long time since this variable was positioned at these levels and now it has been there for more than a month.
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
