After touching $500 the day before, the blue dollar fell sharply this Wednesday. The parallel note fell $21 and closed at $474 for sale and $469 for purchase on the black market for currencies.
After registering in the previous round its highest daily rise in 10 months, jumping $33 and posting a nominal intraday all-time high of $497 for sale, it was on a noticeable decline today.
During this Wednesday, the parallel dollar fell to $467, although it later stabilized above $470. All in all, the gap with the official exchange rate fell 10 points, to 113.9%, from the previous 124.1%.
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On Tuesday, the blue jumped $33 to $495, after having touched $500, which led the Minister of Economy, Sergio Massa, to announce that the Government would intervene strongly in the financial markets of the dollar, something that materialized with the running Of the hours.
