Dollar today: how much the blue and the official were valued on Monday, December 28

he blue dollar starts the last week of the year at $ 163 for sale in the city of Buenos Aires, four pesos over the fence last Wednesday as it jumped seven pesos as the Christmas holidays approached.

So the parallel currency adds an increase of $ 11 in the last two wheels, driven by hedge buys, market analysts say, in the midst of another short week due to this Thursday and Friday New Years holiday.

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Meanwhile, the ticket the officer went up this Monday to $ 88.75 on sale at Banco Nación, up 25 cents from last Wednesday. To this value are added the increases of 30% of the PAIS tax and the 35% of anticipated profit perception. So the united it was also more expensive and offered to $ 146.44.

he big dollar, administered by the Central Bank (BCRA), was once again increase: 0.7% compared to the previous closing, up to $ 83.91. In this way, the monetary authority keeps devaluation slow but sustained of the peso in line with inflation.

Regarding the financial options, they remain lower than the solidarity contribution and although they have increased compared to the previous closing. He “counted with liqui ” o CCL (used to buy foreign currency and transfer it to an account abroad) operates in $ 142.29, an increase of 1.3% compared to Wednesday. he dollar bag o MEP increased by 0.9% to $ 141.63.

For their part, the flagship actions of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange operated this afternoon with a 0.64% decrease. The S&P MerVal indicator fell to 51,284.68 points, with a volume traded in shares of 41.1 million pesos.

Among the leaders, they operated in red, the Loma Negra papers (0.31%); TGN (1.63%); YPF (1.87%); Aluar (1.14%); BYMA (0.96%) and Grupo Galicia (0.32%).

Meanwhile, the index countries at risk, measured by JP Morgan, was in the 1354 points basic.

Official controls

During the three days of activity over the past week, market attention has been focused on controls renewed by the government on stock market transactions with the currency: “cash with settlement” and the Stock Exchange.

From the different official areas the data are crossed to check whether the companies which have benefited from State aid To mitigate the effects of the coronavirus pandemic, they have complied the obligation not to buy dollars, both official and financial.

In this context, the Minister of Productive Development, Matías Kulfas, assured Wednesday that companies that have received funds from the Work and Production Assistance Program (ATP) and which have operated with bonds to acquire foreign currency must repay the amounts of state aid.

The novelty of tighter controls shook the market amid the days when the protagonist was the calm exchange rate, even with the hole between the wholesale dollar and the parallel around the 80%.

The latest Treasury call for tenders 2020

The Ministry of the Economy, which manages Martin guzman, will submit this Monday four letters in pesos, in the last operation of the funding program of the year, with which he will seek to raise around 140,000 million dollars.

The securities to be subscribed are Treasure letters (Letes) at discounts and others at variable rates plus 3.20%, both maturing March 31. It will also offer a series of these same titles. adjusted by CER a discount expiring May 21 and others with similar features but closing September 13.

Receipt of bids, as usual, for these securities will start at 10 a.m. and end at 3 a.m. on Monday, the portfolio led by Guzmán reported. The results will be known the same Monday afternoon.

For all instruments, there will be a competitive tranche and a non-competitive tranche. For the first, the interested party must indicate the nominal amount to be subscribed and the price, while for the second there will be a subscription limit of 3 million nominal dollars and only the amount must be indicated.

News in development, being updated.