The Central Bank (BCRA) closed the conference this Friday with purchases for US$47 million and during the week it acquired US$177 million, favored by the incentive generated by the reimplementation of a special exchange rate for exports from the soybean chain. , valid until the end of the month.
The positive balance is added to the US$ 1,184 million that the monetary authority hoarded during the last four weeks.
Thus, the total amounts to almost US$ 1,231 million since the Export Increase Program (PIE) was reinstated, which establishes a differential exchange rate for the soybean complex of $230 per dollar.
Meanwhile, “the soybean dollar contributed US$ 171,269 million and totaled income for the week for US$ 568,471 million,” according to Gustavo Quintana, an analyst at PR Corredores de Cambio, indicating the amount liquidated by the soybean export sector in the market. unique and free of changes (MULC).
Since the measure came into effect on Monday, November 28, the Central Bank managed to hoard foreign currency in 17 of 18 exchange days.
The only exception occurred last Tuesday when the monetary authority sold US$ 31 million, in a day with limited activity due to the holiday decreed by the Government to celebrate winning the soccer World Cup in Qatar.
