The price of the blue dollar, minute by minute. Photo EFE / Juan Ignacio Roncoroni
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Exchange rate tension continues after government-imposed import restrictions e the blue dollar closed again on Wednesday at its all-time high, with a listing of $ 239.
For its part, financial dollars continued their upward trend and cleared cash reached $ 251.
30.06.2022
08:45
Alberto Fernández said that “a bullfight” has stopped and that “the problem is that the economy is growing a lot”
Alberto Fernandez in C5N.
Alberto Fernández said that the fiscal deficit is a “negative effect on the economy” and once again deviated from Cristina Kirchner, who downplayed its importance in her last speech before the CTA. Furthermore, he pointed to the opposition: “There is a sector of Argentine politics that has left us the worst economic scenario,” he said and asked them to shut up.
He also talked about stopping “a third bullfight” against his government. But that the problem is another. “The problem”, he explained, “is that the economy is growing a lot”. Read more here.
30.06.2022
08:36
Annabella Quiroga
With demand stagnating due to restrictions, the Central Bank was able to purchase $ 583 million
The Central Bank. Photo Rolando Andrade Stracuzzi
With the demand for foreign currency paralyzed by the new restrictions imposed by the government, the Central Bank wiped out this Wednesday with the purchase of dollars in the Single and Free Foreign Exchange Market (MULC).
In a single day he took $ 583 million and completed nearly $ 1 billion so far this week. Today’s purchase is the highest in Alberto Fernández’s management and the largest for a single day since December 2016. Read the full note here.
30.06.2022
08:33
Giovanni Manuel Barca
Martín Guzmán rejected versions of his resignation: “It’s not a problem on my agenda”
Economy Minister Martin Guzmán at the EEA meeting. Photo: Andrés D’Eli
After being absent from the cabinet meeting and the turmoil that sowed fear in the markets, Martín Guzmán dismissed the versions of his possible move and the course adopted in recent days has been ratified with the forecast of greater restrictions on imports to contain the loss of reserves and the sustained intervention of the Central Bank on the bond market.
“Those kinds of questions are not part of our agenda, they are part of the journalists’ agenda, my agenda is to devote myself day by day to the management of economic policy to improve the quality of life of Argentines, and I collaborate with the President in power make them live better “, said the Minister of Economy questioned at a press conference on the possibility of Sergio Massa replacing him in a possible” super-ministry “. Read more here.
Source: Clarin
