Exchange rate: dollar starts the week down and is quoted at S / 4,052

The dollar exchange rate It opened the week down and was quoted at S / 4,052, reported the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP). In the morning, the greenback had started at S / 4,062.

During the session, the issuing entity placed interest rate swaps for a term of 3 months for S / 50 million at an average rate of 2.70% and regular currency repos for S / 200 million at 1 month, at an average rate of by 3.01%.

There were also auctions of 6-month Public Treasury Deposits for S / 132.1 million; 3-month CDV BCRP, for S / 1,000.1 million; 1-month CD BCRP for S / 200 million; and Overnight Deposits, for S / 12,899.7 million.

In this way, the currency accumulates a gain of 11.96% against the sun in the exchange market so far in 2021, after it culminated in S / 3,619 last year. In addition, the currency was at its lowest level since November 26, when it scored S / 4,045.

Likewise, the dollar achieves, just a few days after the BCRP raised the benchmark interest rate to 2.50, a daily decline of S / 1.49 compared to the close of last Friday the 10th.

Meanwhile, the currency is priced at S / 4,054 for the purchase and S / 4,067 for the sale in the main banks of the country. The exchange houses and ordinary money changers, meanwhile, offer it for S / 4.05 the purchase and S / 4.08 the sale.

This occurs in a key week for the Government, in which it will have to glimpse between the request for powers in tax matters for the mining sector before the Congress of the Republic, the announced stoppage of the Las Bambas mining project, and the presentation of the schedule monitoring for the closure of mines in Ayacucho.

At the international level, the markets are waiting for the meeting of the Federal Reserve of the United States, to be consummated on December 14, 15 and 16. The Fed is expected to make adjustments to its monetary measures to curb the inflation that plagues the North American giant.