On Monday, the bill had dropped $ 2 while, in last week’s accumulated, it had lost another $ 3.
On Tuesday, August 4, after the agreement for the debt swap under foreign law was known, the informal price collapsed $ 8. However, between Wednesday and Thursday the currency rebounded $ 4 and on Friday it rose again.
From the consultancy Wise they maintained that there are not too many reasons for the blue dollar to rise since the debt restructuring is almost a fact, there is a trade surplus that allows the reserves to increase, and economic activity shows some signs of recovery.
It should be remembered that, last July, there had been blockages of bank accounts in dollars by banks due to “unusual movements”, carried out by the “digital coleros”, who then used the informal market to carry out the “pure” (buy in the official and sell in the parallel taking advantage of the existing exchange gap). This regulation caused a drop in the supply of caves.
Since the quarantine began, the blue has accumulated an increase of $ 45.50 (from the $ 85.50 on March 20), a product, among other causes, of greater restrictions, not only in the Single Market and Free of Changes, but also for operations with the CCL dollar and the MEP.
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