Peruvian dollar: Check the exchange rate. Today, October 23, 2021

The price of the dollar closed with a rise in the exchange market amid the global decline in the currency due to a greater appetite for risk and also due to concerns among local investors due to the tension between the Executive and Congress.

At the end of operations, the price of the greenback was S / 3.9680 in the interbank market, a level higher by 0.40% compared to S / 3.9520 at the close of last Thursday, according to data from the BCR.

To attenuate the volatility of the exchange rate, the BCR went out to place exchange swaps for a total of S / 740 million through four auctions. Also interest rate swap term of six months for S / 100 million. In addition, it sold $ 47 million in cash to a exchange rate average S / 3.9680 per dollar.

The issuing institute accumulates cash sales for US $ 57,728 million so far in 2021.

The greenback was down on international markets on news that indebted real estate developer China Evergrande Group dodged a default, fueling appetite for risky assets.

Now that the markets have almost discounted in recent days the possibility of a first interest rate hike in the United States for July, the dollar it has become more sensitive to risk appetite.

At the local level, traders reported that the renewed tensions between the Executive and the Legislature may once again increase nervousness among exchange market agents.

Congress has approved the opinion by insistence that regulates the question of trust despite the request of the head of the Ministerial Cabinet, Mirtha Vásquez.

In a press conference, Vásquez said that the Council of Ministers agreed to present a claim of unconstitutionality before the Constitutional Court (TC) against the norm approved by insistence by Parliament.

With the result of the day, the dollar accumulates a gain of 9.64% against the sun so far in 2021, after closing at S / 3.19 last year.