The financial dollars were trading higher this Wednesday and were coupled with the rise of the blue on Tuesday. In this way, all exchange gaps are consolidated above 40%.
This Wednesday, the last day of the mini week, the price of the blue dollar corrected the rise of the day before and fell five pesos to close at around $1,270 for purchase and $1,300 pesos for sale.
After setting its nominal record, this Wednesday the currency stopped an increase of two consecutive days where it had advanced 60 pesos. In the month, the parallel price rises 6.12% and for the second month beats inflation.
Financial dollars rose, after several days of slight volatility, mainly supported by last week’s good news.
The MEP dollar advanced about $28.29 (+2.27%) to close the week at $1,273.78. while the CCL did the same, climbing $25.08 (+1.98%) to $1,292.47 to once again set its sights near $1,300.
The week closes with the blue dollar as the most expensive of the free dollars and with compact gaps between the lowest 40.36% and the highest 43.25%.
The wholesale dollar increased $2.50 to close at $907.50. While the value of the bill in Banco Nación was $924.50 and in the average of the banks it is $944.92.
After receiving US$800 million from the IMF this Tuesday and buying 82 million in the foreign exchange market, this Wednesday the Central Bank sold 156 million dollars.
What was the largest sale of foreign currency in the Milei era has its explanation in the United States holiday that paralyzed foreign currency income and the monetary authority had to go out to respond to the needs of importers.
After these sales, the Central’s gross reserves decreased by 12 million dollars to close the week at US$29,944 million.
With the sale of US$156 million this Wednesday, in June barely US$25 million of net purchases are accumulated, after closing a first week with US$99 million, a second week neutral and these two days with a balance of -US $74 million.
