Dollar maintains a downward trend and falls -1.39% this day compared to Wednesday’s close. In addition, the GDP of the United States presented a positive growth of 2.9%.
The price of the dollar closed down the day of this Thursday, January 26, 2023 and was located at S / 3.8380. In this way, it presented a decline of -1.39% compared to Wednesday’s close, when it traded at S/3.8920, as reported by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP).
At 1:35 pm, the US currency in the parallel market was trading at S/3.84 for purchase and S/3.88 for sale. For its part, in the banking market it was bought at S/3.76200 and sold at S/3.96500 at the windows of the Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP).
Government transfers more than S/360 million to the MEF Contingency Reserve
Internationally, this Thursday, the economic data of USA that reflected a better outlook than projected. Thus, the GDP for the fourth quarter of 2022 grew at a rate of 2.9% compared to the expected 2.6%. On the other hand, the pace of the labor market shows signs of resistance as the requests for unemployment benefits decrease, dropping to 186,000 applications versus the 205,000 that were expected, reported Fabiola Gutiérrez, Foreign Exchange trader at Renta4 SAB.
Source: Larepublica
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