After two days of respite, the Central Bank had to sell 28 million dollars

The alternative dollars were stable this week, with the blue inside $379 and the MEP of $356.9 and cash with liquid inside $367.5.

Meanwhile, so far in February and with just two business days left in the month, the wholesale dollar is trading at $195.7, an increase of 4.7%.

​Amidst this lull, the Central Bank had to go out and sell $28 million to supply the market. With this, the sales trend that prevailed for almost the whole month and which had come to a standstill in this short week, with purchases of US$ 5 million between Wednesday and Thursday, resumed.

The central bank was left $925 million so far in February, which makes evident the difficulties encountered by the economic team in replenishing reserves and achieving the objectives set with the Monetary Fund.

bonds fall

​This Friday, Argentine dollar bonds also resumed their predominant trend for the whole month, with casualties averaging 2%. In the previous two rounds they had shown rallies of around 5%, but even so far this month they have shed up to 13%.

This drove up country risk by 1.7% a 2007 basis points. It is up 10.7% so far in February.

The S&P Merval index fell 0.2% and stood at 247,634.38 units after the half wheel in the Buenos Aires market, while shares of Argentine companies on Wall Street traded negatively, with losses up to 2.8%.

The leading panel of the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange, in line with the reference market, operated with the majority of the numbers in red, with the papers of Transener and Transportadora de Gas del Norte lead the cuts with -2.9% in both cases.

For their part, Loma Negra (+3.7%) and BBVA (+2.2%) led the limited group of companies with increases.

Meanwhile, ADRs of Argentine companies on Wall Street traded with a predominance of bears, on a day where Globant and Tenaris showed the main bears with -2.8%. Meanwhile, Loma Negra (+3.2%) and BBVA (+2.4%) led the small group of five companies in increases.

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