Lacunza said the dollar's current value "allows us to be competitive with the rest of the world" – Telam

Finance Minister Hernán Lacunza has ruled out a further rise in the dollar, warning that the current exchange rate "can be competitive with the rest of the world," he said. There is no fundamental reason for upward pressure. "

"Any pressure on the exchange rate is nothing more than a speculative move, which makes no sense to cope with this trend, as this would allow a free and prejudicial shift for the stability and inflation, "said Mr Lacunza.

Addressing the TN channel, the manager, who was replacing Nicolás Dujovne last Tuesday, said that "the dollar has reached its highest value in the last 12 years", at a "price higher than long pay ". which allows us to be competitive with the rest of the world and to stabilize Argentina's relations with the rest of the world. "

In this regard, he noted that "there is no basic reason for upward pressure on the dollar".

After meeting today the economists of the Front candidate of all, Alberto Fernández, the leader pointed out that "there is a global consensus" with the opposition on this "diagnosis", including also the support provided yesterday by the technical teams of the presidential candidate. of the federal consensus, Roberto Lavagna.

Lacunza also badyzed that "markets and men are not different things: what happens in one affects the other, because when markets generate their buying and selling decisions, they take into account the present and the future, with the statements of all the candidates. "

Therefore, he asked the opposition "to be cautious so as not to generate unnecessary tension" in the macroeconomy.

"The prerequisite for this order is that we all agree on a stable exchange rate," said the minister.