He dollar returns to operate this Thursday after yesterday’s stoppage of operations due to the May 1 holiday amid global conditions conducive to maintaining its upward value.
The US currency closed April with a monthly increase of 2.04%, selling on Tuesday at 38.318 pesos (0.05% compared to Monday) for the official price of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU).
The dollar, however, has a cumulative depreciation of 1.80% at an annual level, after falling 0.70 pesos since the last exchange day of 2023.
On the reference board of the Banco República (BROU), The retail ticket was offered at 37.00 pesos for purchase and 39.50 pesos for sale on the last day of April. For its part, the preferential value of eBROU dollar It was at 37.50 pesos for purchase and at 39.00 pesos for sale.
At a global level, the dollar indexwhich measures the U.S. currency’s performance against the yen, euro, sterling and three other major currencies, was little changed on Thursday at 105.72, after a 0.6% decline on Wednesday from near six-month highs .
The euro fell 0.1% to $1.0705, after rising 0.5% in the previous session. Sterling was down 0.1% at $1.2513, paring some of Wednesday’s 0.3% gain.
He global dollar yesterday approached its highest level of the year against a basket of currencies and futures fell prior to the monetary policy decision of the United States Federal Reserve (Fed) to maintain interest rates in the current range of 5.25%-5.50%, due to the recent and “disappointing” readings of inflation in the North American country.
On Tuesday, the dollar It gained more than 0.5% against the six currencies that make up the dollar index, and on Wednesday it reached peaks of up to 106.49 points, and then fell in the order of 105.640 points after the news was known.
Source: Ambito
