Price of the dollar LIVE: check everything about the cost of the exchange rate TODAY, Tuesday, December 21

According to Reuters, the US dollar fell slightly on Tuesday as improving risk sentiment boosted riskier currencies such as the Australian dollar and the British pound. The US dollar currency index last stood at 96.47, down 0.03% on the day, after falling as low as 96.336 earlier in the session. The index, which has risen about 7% for the year, fell 0.1% on Monday as traders sold the dollar to record gains in the latter days of the year.

Wall Street closed this Tuesday, December 21, in green and its main indicator, the Dow Jones of Industrials, gained 1.60%, after three consecutive days closing in red due to the uncertainty unleashed as a result of the rebound in contagions of the covid- 19. According to data at the end of the session on the New York Stock Exchange, the Dow Jones added 560.54 points, to 35,492.70 units, and the selective S&P 500 gained 1.78% or 81.21 integers, to 4,649.23 points.

The Lima Stock Exchange closed the day on Tuesday, December 21 with almost all its indicators positive. In this way, the S&P Peru General scored 2.39% (20,614.81 integers), while the S&P Peru Select scored 2.19% (545.49 points). The good run of the capital stock market was driven by the mining and financial sectors, which registered 4.10% and 3.49%, respectively. In a much smaller proportion, the industrial, consumption and construction categories closed with 0.41%; 0.67% and 0.72%.

“As a sign of my total willingness to collaborate with justice, and as a sign of transparency, I have voluntarily requested the lifting of my banking, tax and communications secrecy, a measure that is unprecedented. Likewise, I have personally gone to the Prosecutor’s Office to request that my testimonial statement be advanced for 12/28/21. I emphatically reject having participated in irregular acts. The doors of the Palace are open to support any measure that seeks to clarify doubts, “said President Pedro Castillo on his Twitter account.

The dollar ended the session on Tuesday, December 21, with an appreciation of 0.07%, trading at S / 4.0550. This occurs in the middle of the beginning of the dialogue table between the Executive and the Chumbivilcas communities in order to find a solution to the blockade in Las Bambas.

The representatives of the Chumbivilcas communities arrived in Cusco to participate in the meeting called by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM). The meeting seeks to restart the dialogue in the conflict that has blocked the southern mining corridor for 33 days.
The president of the Collana community, Daniel Collque, said that his presence is due to his desire to dialogue. He said that what they ask is that they be declared of direct environmental and social influence.
The representatives of the other communities and the president of the Defense Front, Wilber Fuentes, entered the meeting without giving statements.
The meeting is chaired by the governor of Cusco, Jean Paul Benavente. Representing the National Executive is the Minister of Energy and Mines, Eduardo Gonzales, the Vice Minister of Governance, Oscar Gobernanza and the Vice Minister of Internal Order.

The Secretariat of Strategic Communication and Press of the Presidency of the Republic reported that the Head of State, Pedro Castillo, has not tried to prevent the Public Ministry from carrying out the corresponding proceedings, after being denounced by the Attorney General, Daniel Soria, for the charge of alleged influence peddling. The investigations against the president are due to the alleged irregularities in the tender for the acquisition of biodiesel.

The euro has depreciated this Tuesday in a quiet negotiation due to the lack of impulse in the currency market because important macroeconomic data have not been published.

The euro was trading at around 4:00 pm GMT at $ 1.1262, compared to $ 1.1290 in the last hours of the European currency market trading the previous day.

The European Central Bank set the benchmark exchange rate for the euro at $ 1.1295.

Wall Street opened in positive this Tuesday with its main indicator, the Dow Jones of Industrials, adding 1.17%, in a rebound in shares after three consecutive days closing with losses due to fears of the possible consequences of the omicron variant of covid-19 in the economy.

President Pedro Castillo, through his lawyer, has made available to the provincial prosecutor Nora Cordova, of the first Corporate Specialized Prosecutor’s Office in Corruption of Public Officials, that the bank secrecy, as well as tax and telephone, be lifted, within the framework of the process followed against the general manager of PetroPerú, Hugo Chávez, for having committed the alleged crime of incompatible negotiation after the meeting in Palacio with the biodiesel supplier that won a tender for more than US $ 70 million.

The dollar opened the trading session on Tuesday, December 21 at S / 4.0490, which represents a depreciation of the US currency of -0.07% compared to the close on Monday, December 20 (S / 4.0520).

This happens amid expectations for the meeting scheduled by the PCM with the purpose of providing a definitive and sustainable solution to the problems that revolve around the South Road Corridor.

Meanwhile, global stocks rose on Tuesday as investors weighed how far the omicron variant of the coronavirus would affect economies around the world, with the dollar weakening as appetite for riskier assets made a cautious return.

Víctor Villa, legal advisor to the inhabitants of Chumbivilcas, in Cusco, confirmed that representatives of the community will participate in the meeting called for today by the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) together with the negotiation team of MMG Ltd, operator of the unit Las Bambas mining company, from Apurímac.

The Minister of Economy and Finance, Pedro Francke, said on the morning of Tuesday, December 21, that the Government of Pedro Castillo is committed to achieving a balance between mining, the environment and social development.

Francke’s statements come amid the expectations of the meeting that the Presidency of the Council of Ministers (PCM) scheduled for this Tuesday – urgently – with the purpose of providing a definitive and sustainable solution to the problems that revolve around to the South Road Corridor.

Along these lines, Francke Ballvé called on the communities to resume dialogue and avoid any violence.