Exchange rate: The dollar ended the session trading at S/ 3,800

The exchange rate ended the session trading at S/ 3,800 per dollar, an advance of 0.09% compared to Monday’s close, at S/ 3,796, according to the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCR).

So far this year, the US currency accumulates a decline of 4.78% in contrast to the last price of 2021, at S / 3,991. During the day, the issuing entity placed exchange swaps for sale with a fixed rate for S/ 200 million for six months, at an average rate of 0.52%.

In addition, it placed interest rate swaps for a term of six months for S/ 50 million at an average rate of 4.22%. On the other hand, in the parallel market or the main exchange houses, the dollar was bought at S/ 3,785 and sold at S/ 3,815, according to the portal cualestaeldolar.pe.

Regionally, most Latin American currencies and stock markets were trading with gains on Tuesday, amid a global retreat from the dollar and a détente between Russia and Ukraine that restored investors’ appetite for risky assets.

According to the Reuters agency, in a joint press conference after talks with German Chancellor Olaf Scholz, President Vladimir Putin said that Russia had decided to partially withdraw troops from the vicinity of Ukraine and that he saw some scope to continue discussing with the West the security demands of Moscow.

Meanwhile, the index dollarwhich measures the performance of the greenback against a basket of six major currencies, was down about 0.3%.