Among the shares with the highest rises, there will be YPF (+4%); Black Hill (+3.5%); and Grupo Supervielle (+3.5%). While the most prominent declines are registered Agrometal (-2.4%); Aluar (1.9%); and Holcim (-1.4%).
For his part, major US stock indices fall more than 0.5% on the wheel, after higher-than-expected inflation data and a drop in weekly jobless claims fueled fears the Federal Reserve would continue to raise interest rates to tame high prices.
On Wall Street, the Dow Jones Industrial Average loses 0.6%, to 33,940.80 units, while the S&P 500 falls 0.5%, to 4,126.23. He Nasdaq Composite falls 0.5%, to 12,012.00 units.
In this context, the Argentine shares listed on the New York Stock Exchange operate with a majority of losses, they are led by Supervielle Group (4.4%); Telecom Argentina (+4.2%); and Loma Negra (+3.6%).
The payment of imports committed by the Government and by private companies put pressure on the weak reserves of the central bank of Argentina (BCRA), those that continued to drop on Thursday due to official exchange intervention to regulate the daily devaluation of the peso.
Operators said that the monetary authority regulated the outflow of foreign currency, for an accounting of reserves that the day before yielded almost US$500 million in its daily variation based on provisional data.
Of these, some US$262 million went to cancel the early purchase of a ship with liquefied natural gas (LNG) thanks to the low international prices of hydrocarbons, which will allow the Government to save some US$2,100 million. , according to an official report.
Bonds and country risk
In the fixed income segment, bonds denominated in dollars deepen their negative streak and lose up to more than 3%. The greatest decreases result for the Global 2030 (-3%); Global 2035 (-2.9%); the Bonar 2030 (-2.6%); and Bonar 2029 (-2.6%).
Thus, the country risk measured by JPMorgan climbs 1.4% and remains above 2,000 basis points, climbing to 2,024 points.
Source: Ambito
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