The dollar the blue dropped a weight this Thursday and sold for $468on a day the Central Bank sold $18 million, which represented a slowdown from previous rounds.
New in development
Foreign tourists will be able to pay with electronic wallets at the exchange rate of the MEP dollar
From Friday, foreign tourists will be able to pay with electronic wallets at an exchange rate that will refer to the stock exchange or MEP dollar, and equate payment with QR of foreign means of payment to those made with debit and credit cards issued by banks at the external.
To this end, foreign operators of these wallets need to enter into agreements with local administrators to be able to pass on the benefit of making QR payments in businesses across the country to their financial users.
Three hot weeks await the government: IMF money, the dollar and the candidacies
Hernán Lacunza was very harsh: “No one knows how long the deadly calm of the dollar can last.” And Luciano Laspina launched a missile: “This is the 2001 of Peronism”. The description took place at the Juntos table.
Thus, on high alert, was the intimacy of a meeting where the only conclusion was that only IMF money can avoid the abyss. Above, Ricardo López Murphy completed: “China does not exist and Brazil is towards.” Eduardo Levy Yeyati concluded: “The government has a hard time getting there.”
The quartet – he took care of the words – has returned to accuse Cristina, Alberto and Massa of having armed a bomb but now they say it could explode before the elections. The candidates listened uneasily. A few months ago, these projections were encouraged by figures such as Guido Sandleris and Macri’s gurkas. Mauricio is no longer a candidate and there is another political scenario. The bigger the economic crisis, the more Javier Milei quotes in the polls and contests JxC ballot entry.
CABA: Food up more than 10% in April and stacks nearly 40% increase in 4 months
Shoppers browse for products in a supermarket in the Belgrano neighborhood of Buenos Aires. photo Bloomberg.
Due to the skyrocketing prices of vegetables, meat, milk and dairy products, staple foods increased in April in the city of Buenos Aires by more than 10%. And they rake in an increase of about 38% in the first 4 months of the year, led by meat and vegetables.
In relation to average inflation, food prices exceed the average price increase by more than 8 percentage points.
Due to the weight of food in the general index, average inflation in Buenos Aires in April would have been around 7.8%. In March it was 7.1%.
Source: Clarin
