The blue dollar opened at $ 183 and the pressure on financial dollars continues

10/22/2020 11:26 AM

• Clarín.com

• Economy

Updated 10/22/2020 11:26 AM

This Thursday, the blue dollar opened at $ 183. On Wednesday it had reached that level after an escalation of three pesos.

But the informal market came to a standstill at noon amid raids on the caves in the downtown area.

So today expectations are set to see if the blue will settle at this value or resume the rise.

With the blue at $ 183

and is heading to double the 77% that it showed until September 15, the day the exchange rate tightened.

At the same time, financial dollars started up once again, as they have been happening throughout the week.

The

 (CCL) -the operation that allows foreign currency to be carried

continues to be immune to the measures that the Ministry of Economy took to oil operations and remove the restrictions that the Central Bank had imposed in mid-September with the super stocks.

This Thursday the CCL

In this way, it exceeds the peak that it had touched yesterday - $ 181- before the official bodies came out to sell bonds to force it to fall and close at $ 174.

The same trend is maintained by the MEP dollar -which allows acquiring foreign currency through the stock market-.

It increases 3.7%, to $ 168.6.

In the official segment,

, a jump of 30 cents from one day to the next.

The retailer averages $ 83.35, bringing the savings dollar to $ 137.10.

For its part, country risk, the JP Morgan indicator that measures the surcharge that Argentina pays for borrowing continues to rise.

On this day it increased 0.8% and already reached

.

This reflects the course of Argentine bonds, particularly those that were issued after the debt swap, which

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