The dollar price continues to rise.
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Although the government assures that the markets have believed in Silvina Batakis and are trusting her announcements, the tension on exchange rates continues and The blue dollar jumped sharply to close this Thursday at $ 289.
Financial dollars also traded higher, with settlement liquidity above $ 294 and country risk at 2,756 points.
15.07.2022
08:27
Airlines and travel agencies warn that 82% more has already been paid for each ticket
An American Airlines plane. Photo: AP
The Argentine Chamber of Airlines (Jurca) and the Argentine Federation of Travel and Tourism Company Associations (FAEVYT) have decided to repudiate the new increase in the tourist dollar, announced on Wednesday evening. Taxes are estimated to be already paying 82% more for every ticket overseas.
Airlines have expressed their “concern” over the government’s decision on the tourist dollar to increase the perception of personal income and assets from 35% to 45%. They stressed that “it is opposed to the incentive of tourism and its consequent foreign exchange income for the country”. Read more here.
15.07.2022
08:07
Ana Chiara Pedotti
More headlines for the “tourist dollar”: blue jumped to $ 289 and financial dollars went up too
View of the city of Buenos Aires. Photo: Rafael Mario Quinteros.
Far from calming down, the peso rush intensified Thursday after the new AFIP measures were known, which raised the dollar’s cost of external consumption. The blue dollar rose $ 6 to reach $ 289; while on the equity market, liquidity with liquidation rose 1.6% to the brink of $ 295, close to the nominal ceiling reached last Friday.
Among the rumors about a possible change in access to the MEP dollar, this price which remains the lowest on the free market and which, despite the restrictions imposed by parking, has no quotas to dollarize, added 1.6% and touched the 285 dollars. This Wednesday, Adrián Cosentino submitted his resignation to CNV and there are doubts as to how his replacement will handle this type of operation. Read more here.
Source: Clarin
