Peru exchange rate: Know the price of the dollar. Today, Sunday, December 19, 2021

The US dollar in Peru is trading lower this weekend, amid investors’ concerns about the economic impact that the new variant of coronavirus called Ómicron will have, while at the local level, uncertainty remains due to the situation in Las Bambas.

At the end of operations, the exchange rate It was quoted at S / 4,038 per dollar in the interbank market, a fall of 0.04% compared to the S / 4.040 at the close of the working weekend (Monday to Friday), according to data from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR).

The BCR it intervened in the session through exchange swaps (fixed rate) for S / 200 million for 1 year, at an average rate of 0.57%; for S / 200 million at 6 months, at an average rate of 0.59%; and for S / 300.1 million over 6 months, at an average rate of 0.60%.

The dollar At the international level it was trading under pressure, at the end of a week in which the main central banks of the world exposed their plans to reduce the stimuli applied to face the pandemic and the Bank of England surprised the markets with a rate hike.

The different paths that the banks took underscored the deep uncertainties about the effect of the omicron variant of the coronavirus on the world economy and the different views on rising inflation, which has accelerated strongly in the United States and Britain, but not both in Europe and Japan.

The index dollar, which measures the greenback’s performance against six rival currencies, has lost nearly 1% since its rise on Wednesday, after the Federal Reserve said it would end bond purchases in March and paved the way for three hikes. rate of a quarter of a percentage point next year.

At the local level, investors remain expectant about the dialogue that the Executive will hold with businessmen in light of the recent conflicts and protests against the Las Bambas mine.

In the parallel market or houses of Lima, the exchange rate the purchase price was S / 4,010 and the sale of each dollar.