Dollar today: how much it closed this Tuesday, February 8

Dollar today: how much it closed this Tuesday, February 8

The Central Bank (BCRA) again added some US$2 million through its intervention in the foreign exchange market, after registering a positive balance of nearly $50 million on Monday, his largest daily net purchase of foreign currency in a month.

The monetary authority comes from three consecutive weeks with an unfavorable balance in its interventions.

Savings or solidarity dollar

The savings dollar or solidarity dollar -retail plus tax- climbed five cents to $183.96 on average, after posting its biggest rise of the year on Friday (74 cents).

wholesale dollar

In the wholesale segment, the dollar directly regulated by the BCRA closed the day at $105.82, 14 cents above the previous close.

In this way, between Monday and Tuesday the price grew 41 cents, against 28 cents in the same period last week. Consequently, the ticket is already increasing at its highest monthly rate since January 2021.

Dollar CCL

In the stock market, dollar counted in liquid” (CCL) valued with the GD30 bond registers its sixth fall in the last eight rounds, falling some 85 cents (-0.4%) to settle at $217.88. In this way, the gap with the official exchange rate is reduced to 105.9%, the lowest level in 15 rounds. Last week the CCL had recorded a drop of $5.87 (-2.6%).

MEP dollar

Parallel, the MEP dollar or Stock Exchange (also operated with GD30) decreases 0.6% (-$1.27) to $208.95with which the spread with the wholesale price falls to 97.5%.

For its part, the blue dollar operates stable in the $214, according to a survey of Ambit in the Black Market of Currencies.

As on Monday, the parallel dollar remains unchanged, after accumulating a decrease of $2.50 between Thursday and Friday of last week. The gap with the wholesale exchange rate is positioned in the 102.2%, minimum since January 17.

Let us remember that the informal dollar suffered a sharp drop of $10 on Friday, January 28, as a reaction to the announcement of the principle of agreement between Argentina and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) for the refinancing of a large debt in foreign currency.

The parallel dollar, anyway, it rose last week by $1.50.

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Source: Ambito

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