The dollar informal continues its upward career and seems to have no brakes, despite the fact that The Central Bank bought some 239 million dollars in the Single and Free Exchange Market (MULC), the largest transaction in three months.
The blue currency came to trade at $359, touching the nominal maximum, but cut the rise in the final leg of the operation, ending one peso above the previous day, at $357. A) Yes, the dollar So far in December, it maintains an increase of $43, or 13.7%.
So far this week, it has already accumulated a rise of 17 pesos, after scoring three consecutive weekly advances, after jumping between last Monday and Friday, 19 pesos.
The exchange gap, that is, the difference between the parallel dollar and the rate of change wholesaler, reached 102.3%. If we look at the advance of the currency so far this year, an advance of 71.6%, or 149 pesos, is observed after closing 2021 at around $208.
Throughout 2021, the blue dollar showed a rise of 25.3%, that is, 42 pesos, half compared to the inflation of the period that reached 50.9%, after showing a strong jump of 111%, in a context of inflation of 36%.