The price of the US dollar in Peru opened higher on Friday, after revealing the inflation data in the United States, which was well above expectations and opened the doors to further tightening of monetary policy by the Reserve Federal (Fed).
The exchange rate operates at S/ 3.98 per dollar, an advance of 0.18% compared to the close of Thursday, according to the Bloomberg agency.
So far this year, the greenback accumulates a decline of 0.95% compared to the last price of 2021, at S / 3,991.
On the other hand, in the parallel market or the main exchange houses, the dollar is bought at S/ 3.96 and sold at S/ 3.99, according to data from the portal cualestaeldolar.pe.
At the regional level, the currencies and stock markets of Latin America closed higher on Thursday, after reversing strong losses in the first hour after the inflation data in the United States that was well above expectations and opened the doors to a further tightening of monetary policy by the Federal Reserve (Fed).
US consumer prices rose more than expected in September and underlying pressures continued to build, reinforcing expectations that the Federal Reserve will carry out a fourth interest rate hike of 75 basis points next month. .
After the inflation data, the regional currencies were strongly impacted and several of them gave up gains to fall more than 1%, but as the minutes went by they moderated those losses until they were fully reversed and profits were achieved.
Source: Elcomercio
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