Check the price of the dollar in Peru today, Saturday, March 19, 2022. The greenback opened the session with a value of S / 3.7815, according to Bloomberg. On the day of Friday, March 18, the greenback closed at S / 3,782, according to the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCRP).
For its part, the BCRP also presented its new estimates and maintained the projection of growth of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) at 3.4% for this 2022, considering that there is uncertainty at the international level due to the armed conflict between Russia and Ukraine. In this regard, the chairman of the board, Julio Velard, He pointed out that in February 2022 the GDP would have had a performance, estimating that a rate of between 5% and 6% had been registered.
Meanwhile, the Ministry of Agrarian Development and Irrigation (Midagri)through Senasa, announced that the National Service for Agrifood Health and Quality of Argentina will allow the access of passion fruit from Peru to this country’s market, with 45 million potential consumers.
In this way, the volume certified for export of granadilla had a 155% increase in 2021 in relation to the certified volume in 2020. Likewise, this product was exported to 10 international markets last year, being bolivia the main importing country of Peruvian granadilla with 42% of placements, followed by Italy with 32%, Spain with 12%, the Netherlands with 7%, and France, Switzerland, Germany, Canada, the United Kingdom and Brazil with 7% of the certified volume of granadilla for export.
Live: Dollar, latest news for March 19
WTI oil closes the week higher
The price of Texas Intermediate (WTI) oil ended the week higher, rising 1.7% to $104.7 a barrel, after Russian President Vladimir Putin accused kyiv of trying to bog down negotiations to put end the invasion of Ukraine.
According to the New York Mercantile Exchange (Nymex), WTI futures contracts for delivery in April added 1.72% compared to the previous close.
Source: Larepublica

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