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Exchange crisis: the blue jumped to $474 and the Central began May with sales of US$133 million

2023-05-03T00:15:22.302Z


Despite the super rate, the interventions in the financial market and the new stocks, the ticket began the week demanding after the measures announced on the holiday. Another step by Sergio Massa against what was agreed with the IMF.


The exchange market began a new week with instability.

On the street, the blue dollar rose $5 from its close on Friday and closed at $474 and on the stock market, due to the new CNV restrictions for the purchase of cash with liquidation and the MEP dollar, price dispersion and volatility were seen.

With the level of reserves in its sights, the Central Bank sold dollars again and ended the first round of May with a negative balance of US$133 million.

Despite the fact that the Export Incentive Program, the so-called soybean dollar, is still in force, the organization chaired by Miguel Pesce has not been able to recover: this Tuesday the field liquidated just US$55 million, but the organization validated energy payments for more than US$ 105 million.

Since the opening of the parallel market, the bill has been in demand and prices have jumped: on Friday, after the "super rate hike" by the Central Bank and after the strong intervention in the bond market, the price of the informal had managed to fall at $469.

Exchange rate

uncertainty remains high

and the adjustments to the stocks that were communicated to the market over the long weekend once again put pressure on the "free" dollar,

the only segment of the market that does not have state "intervention"

.

Thus, from the beginning of the round this Tuesday, the blue jumped positions again and before noon

it reached $478, an increase of $9

.

This Tuesday, the RG959 of the National Securities Commission was made official in the Official Gazette, which puts

two new obstacles

to the operation of the big players who buy dollars through the Stock Market.

The measure

 aims to reduce the fall in reserves

and limit the "curls" in the financial market.

On the one hand, it establishes that those who have bonds or repos

in their possession

(two very short-term instruments) cannot carry out the bond purchase and sale operations from which cash dollars with liquidation and MEP arise.

On the other hand, it forces the big stock companies to negotiate the exchange rate

"off the screens"

and to overturn a parallel wheel, called Senebi (Bilateral Trading Segment).

Even so, the

cash with "screen" settlement

is trading higher this Tuesday and is positioned

above $ 460.

Delphos analysts anticipated that with these measures, "the PPT market (the one seen on the screens)

would lose depth

with the measures provided, which in turn would generate

divergences in the prices of financial dollars

according to the different markets and species" .

This mechanism had occurred after the exchange crisis of 2021 when,

under the management of Martín Guzmán,

the CNV had taken a similar measure.

The measure had been in force

until the agreement with the Fund

signed in the middle of last year.

With this "restitution" to the stocks, Massa would then be

countering the IMF at another point. 


look also

The Senebi dollar is back: what it is, how it works and who can buy it

The Government introduces more controls to block the exit of dollars from the country

Massa travels to Brazil to meet with Lula: he seeks credit to import without using dollars

Source: clarin

All business articles on 2023-05-03

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