Photograph showing a woman marking dollar bills. Photo EFE / Mauricio Dueñas Castañeda.
News in development
the blue dollar closed Friday afternoon for $ 292 per unit for sale, one weight less than the closing price recorded the previous day.
The wait for this Monday will be fixed how markets will react to devaluation rumors which has been running in the last few hours and which the Government has come out to reject.
Massa could denounce an economist who predicted a devaluation for “terrorism”
In the Twitter microworld, rumors of a possible devaluation rose this Sunday when an economist with access to markets responded in his account to a note previously posted by journalist Horacio Verbistky on his blog “El Cohete a la luna”, on a “Reserved Stabilization Plan” written by the Deputy Minister of Economy Gabriel Rubinstein, which among other things would provide for a jump in the official exchange rate.
Fernando Marull, director of FM y Asociados, wrote on his social network account: “According to Rubinstein’s” Secret “plan: next Thursday, September 1st, at 10:01 am, the official dollar will rise by 50%, to about $ 200 “. The tweet went viral and it later emerged that the same Minister of Economy on Monday filed a criminal complaint against Marul for committing “economic terrorism”. Read more.
Given the rumors, Rubinstein came out to deny a devaluation
Sergio Massa confirmed Gabriel Rubinstein as the new Secretary for Economic Planning.
Gabriel Rubinstein had to come out to deny a possible devaluation of the dollar. In an audio that circulated on Sunday evening, the deputy minister of economy categorically rejected the possibility of the government announcing a jump in the official change.
Massa’s second stated that “there is no imminent devaluation” and that the voices that have strengthened in recent days in the financial world respond to “an operation that is taking place on several fronts. I assure you 100% that there will be no devaluation, “he said. Read more.
The blue dollar closed on Friday at $ 292
Pending the reaction the blue dollar will have this Monday, following devaluation rumors, the parallel exchange rate fell 0.34% last Friday and ended the week at $ 292.00.
With this value, the gap with the official dollar drops to 101.8%
Source: Clarin
