The blue dollar dropped one peso at Wednesday’s close and it ended up at $378 for the sale. Meanwhile, the dollar with the 30% surcharge -envisaged in the COUNTRY tax-, scored an average of $259.30 per unit, and with the Irpef advance of 35% on the purchase of foreign currency, at $329.11.
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At the cost of a sharp decline in reserves, there was a slight decline in dollar-denominated public debt in January
Amid the controversy over debt levels, the Ministry of Economy’s Finance Secretary reported that, mainly due to payments to the IMF in January, national foreign-currency public debt fell by $2,137 billion, but increased the debt in pesos for an equivalent value in dollars of US$ 1,365 million.
Thus, last month the national public debt – without the Central Bank and the Provinces – decreased by 772 million dollars: from 396,539 million dollars to 395,779 million dollars. 34% of the debt in the normal payment situation is contracted in local currency while the remaining 66% is in foreign currency. To know more.
The blue dollar dropped one peso on Thursday and closed at $378
While it rose and fell $2 during the day on Tuesday to close at $379 buying and $375 selling, the same value as Monday, this Wednesday the peso fell at the end of the day and was trading at $378.
The US currency did not move during the day except around the 5pm close when it fell
Source: Clarin
