He American dollar is quoted at the start of sessions 1 balboa on averageso that it represented a change of 0% with respect to the data from the previous session, when it closed with 1 balboa.
In relation to the profitability of the last week, the American dollar scores a promotion of 2.38%%for this reason in the last year it still maintains an increase in 2.4%.
Analyzing this data with that of past days, chain two successive sessions without a positive or negative trend. The volatility of the last seven days is manifestly lower than the data obtained for the last year (20.49%), so we can say that it is going through a period of greater stability in recent days.
The Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean positioned Panama as one of the countries with the highest economic growth in the area and predicts that the country’s economy will grow 4.2 percent.
Factors such as the electoral period, drought in the main artificial lakes, unemployment and the increase in interest rates of the Federal Reserve (Fed) are some of the scenarios that will influence the economic situation in Panama.
Copper mining exports represent between 3 and 4 percent of the national economy and given the suspension, the growth outlook for this year is between 1.5 and 2%, for this reason an increase in rates is expected to be recorded. unemployment and informal employment.
In Panama, the legal tender is called the balboa. and is abbreviated PAB; It is divided into 100 cents and what characterizes it is that it is not independent money, but a local version of the US dollar.
The Panamanian government issues its own currencies in hundredths and balboas equivalent to dollars although these currencies are not legal tender in the United States . This is not the only case, since the Tuvaluan and Kiribati dollars have the same relationship with the Australian dollar.
This link with the US dollar occurred in 1904 after the National Convention of Panama. Additionally, in 2010, the one balboa coin entered circulation, of which 40 million units were issued.
Panamanians did not receive this new currency well and accused its forced use to the detriment of the US bill, so the motto was called “Martinelli”in reference to the Panamanian president Ricardo Martinelli, who promoted it.
An attempt was also made to mint coins of two and five balboas, but the project was later cancelled. Today there are coins of one and five hundredths in circulation; a tenth, a quarter and a half of a balboa, as well as one balboa.
