He dollar rose 0.06% compared to Thursday and closed at 38,511 pesos, according to the price of the Central Bank of Uruguay (BCU), accumulating its second consecutive improvement and reaching its first weekly appreciation in a month.
In this way, the US currency remains positive so far this month, with an improvement of 0.5%, but still far from the value expected by the market, which is confident that it will exceed 40 pesos by the end of the year. Meanwhile, if compared with the end of 2023, the dollar maintains a depreciation of 1.31%.
On the reference board of the Republic Bank (BROU)he dollar Retail ticket was offered at 37.30 pesos for purchase and 39.80 pesos for sale. For its part, the preferential value of eBROU dollar It was at 37.80 pesos for purchase and at 39.30 pesos for sale.
The closing price in the Uruguayan Electronic Stock Exchange (Bevsa) It was 38,550 pesos, while the maximum price was also 38,550 pesos, and the minimum was 38,500 pesos. On this day, the number of transactions was a total of 15, with a transaction amount of 17.1 million dollars.
The crypto Tether (USDT)1 to 1 parity with the dollarwas quoted today at an average of 40.93 pesos for online purchases through a bank or card, and from 40.90 pesos to 42.77 pesos in the Binance peer-to-peer (P2P) market.
The dollar advanced globally
The improvement in the local exchange market was in line with that of the banknote at a global level, after data on the confidence of American consumers was known, while investors analyze comments from the authorities of the Federal Reserve, which will focus their attention on next week’s key inflation data.
The bill managed to rise after the preliminary survey of the University of Michigan on consumer confidence, which stood at 67.4 units for May, a six-month low and less than the estimate of 76 of economists surveyed by Reuters. Furthermore, the expectations of inflation one year they rose to 3.5% from 3.2%.
He dollar index, which compares the greenback with a basket of six currencies, gained 0.09%, to 105.31 units, while the euro It fell 0.08%, to $1.0772, reaching its first weekly improvement after two consecutive weeks of decline.
In addition, the currency gained 0.26% against the and in, to 155.86 units, accumulating a weekly increase of 1.9% after having lost 3.4% last week, its largest weekly percentage decline since the beginning of December 2022, after two alleged interventions by the Bank of Japan.
Meanwhile, the pound sterling fell 0.02% to $1.2525, after hitting $1.2541 after data showed the British economy had its strongest growth in almost three years in the first quarter of 2024, ending the recession which he entered in the second half of last year.
The dollar throughout the previous days
- May 3 — 38,078
- May 6 — 38,353
- May 7 — 38,613
- May 8 — 38,431
- May 9 — 38,487
Source: Ambito
