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The price of the dollar opens with a slight decline and is located at S / 3.6924, this Wednesday, May 17

The price of the dollar opens with a slight decline and is located at S / 3.6924, this Wednesday, May 17

The price of dollar The day began with a slight decline this Wednesday, May 17, and reached S/ 3.6924, according to the Bloomberg agency. In this way, it fell 0.18% compared to S/ 3.6990 at the close of Tuesday, according to the report of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP). So far this year, the currency has accumulated a decline of -2.84%.

at 9.20 a.m. the green ticket in the parallel market was trading at S/3.67 for the purchase and S/3.70 for the sale. For its part, in the banking market it reached S/3.6050 in purchases and S/3.7900 in sales at the windows of Banco de Crédito del Perú (BCP).

On an international scale, the dollar rose benefiting from its safe haven status amid the risk of US debt default, and while traders trimmed bets on a rate pullback Federal Reserve (FED) in the short term after the solidity of the consumer spending data in that country.

President Joe Biden and Republican Congressman Kevin McCarthy have approached an agreement to improve the position of the United States’ debt ceiling, but nothing has been finalized yet. Biden said that any default would send the economy into a recession, but investors also fear that the global impact will be negative.

Against a basket of pairs, including the euro, yen and sterling, the index of the dollar it rose 0.25% to 102.86, after touching its highest level since early April.

With information from Reuters.

Source: Larepublica

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