On Friday, the exchange activity in Argentina for the month of February concluded, and all the prices of the dollar had disparate movement in the markets. The regulated ones maintained the progressive advance, the financial ones fell and the parallel rose as the most expensive currency in the country.
In this context, the dollar official opens today’s exchange wheel at an average of $106.95 for purchase and $112.95 for sale, after earning nearly 50 cents all week. While private banks offer foreign currency at $113.33 for sale.
As a result of this increase, the regulated currency known as dollar solidarity, which includes in its value 30% of the COUNTRY Tax and 35% as an advance on account of the Income Tax, it sells today at an average of $186.37 per unit78 cents more expensive than Monday.
stock market
In the last business week of February, financial currencies had multiple fluctuations in the stock market: the CCL continued to rise and the MEP fell. However, on the last day of the week both foreign coins registered a resounding drop in their prices.
First of all, the dollar Counted With Liquid fell $6.64 (5.48%) on Friday and now it sells for $205.22 per unit, its lowest value throughout the year. Then, in second place, is the currency called Bolsa, which broke the threshold of 200 pesos and now it is sold at $197.96 for each ticket.
Parallel market
Meanwhile, in the parallel market, the blue registered two rises of 50 cents between Thursday and Friday, which positions it above the rest of the currencies. Today, Sunday, February 27, the dollar informal is bought at $208 per unit and is sold at an average of $211.
The gap between dollar blue and the official rises above 101%, the highest percentage of the whole week. Let us remember that the parallel is the only currency in the market that operates without regulations from the Central Bank (BCRA) and derives its value from operations in the exchange houses of the City of Buenos Aires.
