Dollar today: how much it closed this Wednesday, October 20

Dollar today: how much it closed this Wednesday, October 20

The improvement in foreign exchange accumulation coincided with the new restrictions imposed to operate with financial dollars, which had the objective of reducing the magnitude of the intervention of the BCRA in the stock market (via loss of reserves) to control the prices of the MEP and the CCL.

The Savings dollar or solidarity dollar -which includes 30% of the COUNTRY tax, and 35% to Profit account- closed unchanged at $ 173.05.

Wholesale dollar

In the wholesale segment, the currency increased four cents to $ 99.35.

Dollar CCL

With the gap almost 80%, the dollar CCL rose 0.1% (24 cents) to $ 178.70, but the “free” CCL that is agreed through bilateral negotiations (SENEBI) -where transactions are not marked on electronic screens- or via ADRs operated above $ 198 (with a spread bordered by 100%).

Dollar MEP

Also, the dollar MEP o Regulated stock market also increased 0.1% to $ 178.60. The spread with the wholesaler was 79.8%.

blue dollar

The The blue dollar rose again this Wednesday and reached a new nominal intraday record of 2021, according to a survey of Ambit in the Black Market of Foreign Currency.

The parallel dollar had fallen $ 1 on Monday, but resumed the upward path on Tuesday and on this day climbed another $ 1 to settle at $ 188, its highest value since the end of October 2020, when the currency closed at $ 190.

Consequently, the gap between the informal dollar and the official wholesale price was 89.2%, the highest level in the month.

With the increase of this Wednesday, the price of the dollar in the parallel market accumulates an advance of $ 2 so far in October.

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