The Central Bank (BCRA) sold reserves for the second consecutive day, after cutting a streak of 14 days without negative results. In this round, he sold US$55 million, which is added to the US$6 million of the previous round.
The positive balance for the month was reduced to just over US$40 million, a fact that sets off some alarms in the process of recovering international reserves undertaken by the monetary authority in the first two months of the year.
Savings or solidarity dollar
The savings dollar or solidarity dollar -retail plus tax- advanced 15 cents to $186.12 on average.
wholesale dollar
The dollar, which is directly regulated by the BCRA, rose 15 cents to $107.19, in a session in which the inactivity due to the weekend was compensated, as at the beginning of each week.
With the normalization of activity after yesterday’s holiday in the United States, the US currency once again traded sideways around the regulation values established by the Central Bank for today.
In a scenario of improvement in the volume of operations, the prices of the wholesale dollar did not substantially deviate from the values set by the enforcement authority. The lows were recorded at the start of the day at $107.15, eleven cents above the previous end. The authorized demand exerted some pressure on the price, which responded with advances that little by little led it to reach maximums of $107.19, a level that was maintained until the close of operations. The official activity attended with veins the purchase orders not satisfied by the genuine offer.
In the first two days of this week andhe wholesale exchange rate advanced 41 cents, against 32 cents of rise registered in the same period of the previous week.
“The official strategy seems to have resumed a higher rate of sliding prices, something that had been relegated in the previous week,” said analyst Gustavo Quintana.
Dollar CCL
The CCL dollar fell 1.9% to $203.33, bringing the gap with the official to 89.7%.
MEP dollar
Meanwhile, the MEP dollar also fell 1.9% to $197.20, leaving a spread of 84%.
The blue dollar fell $1.50 this Tuesday, February 22, 2022, and closed at $210, a new minimum in five weeksaccording to a survey carried out by Ámbito in the Foreign Exchange Black Market.
The informal dollar had rebounded 50 cents on Monday, thus ending a mini streak of two consecutive declines, but on this day it resumed its downward path to approach its lowest value in the year ($206).
Consequently, the spread between the blue dollar and the wholesale exchange rate dropped to 95.9%, the lowest levels since December 21, 2021.
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Source: Ambito
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