Dollar in Peru: check the price and exchange rate for today, Saturday 27

The dollar price The US in Peru closed higher in the day this Friday, amid investors’ fears about the appearance of a variant of coronavirus that could be resistant to vaccines, added to the political uncertainty after the presentation of a vacancy motion presidential.

At the end of the operations, the exchange rate was quoted at S / 4,045 per dollar in the interbank market, a rise of 0.32% compared to the S / 4.032 at the end of Thursday, according to data from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR).

The BCR it intervened in the session through sale exchange swaps (fixed rate) for S / 180 million for 1 year, at an average rate of 0.54%. It also sold US $ 5 million at an average exchange rate of S / 4.0450 per dollar in the spot market.

Little is known about the new variant of COVID-19 detected in South Africa, Botswana and Hong Kong. But scientists believe it has an unusual combination of mutations that may allow it to evade immune responses and be more transmissible.

The event caused a wave of risk aversion at a global level, which strengthened risk assets such as the greenback.

At the local level, on Thursday it was known that opposition benches of the Congress of the Republic presented a motion for presidential vacancy against Pedro Castillo.

With the signatures of congressmen from Fuerza Popular, Renovación Popular and Avanza País, the motion “for permanent moral incapacity” was presented against the president. The document has the support of 28 legislators, two more than the minimum established for entry. It remains to know if the congressmen will gather the necessary signatures for the debate of the motion in the Plenary and a possible approval of this.

In the parallel market or exchange houses of Lima, the exchange rate was quoted at S / 4,025 the purchase and S / 4,060 the sale of each dollar.