Currencies in the region are devalued against the dollar pending key economic data in the US

Currencies in the region are devalued against the dollar pending key economic data in the US

In Brazil, the real fell a marginal 0.05% and the Bovespa stock index fell 0.7%, after the local central bank gave no clues on the level of further rate hikes.

For his part, the Mexican peso fell 0.3%; while the main stock index S&P/BMV IPC added 0.6%, after a holiday that kept markets closed and before knowing more corporate reports for the fourth quarter this week.

In Argentina, the peso, fell 0.1% and the leading S&P Merval index gained 0.4%due to purchases of coverage in the face of the weakness of the peso, at a time when doubts continue about the support of Congress for the recent agreement between the Government and the IMF to renegotiate a debt of more than 40,000 million dollars.

The Chilean peso fell 0.2% to 827.40/827.70 units per dollar. Meanwhile, the leading index of the Santiago stock exchange, the IPSA, rose 1.09% to 4,523.06 points.

Meanwhile, the Peruvian currencythe sol, lost 0.2%, to 3.842/3.853 units per dollar. Meanwhile, the benchmark of the Lima Stock Exchange grew by 0.35%, to 599.90 points.

The exception was in the Colombian peso, which appreciated by 0.2%, to 3,958 units per dollar, while the stock exchange’s benchmark MSCI COLCAP index rose 0.1% to 1,535.60 points.

Source: Ambito

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