Price of the dollar today in Chile: price of the Chilean peso to the US dollar today January 3, 2022

The price of dollar In Chile, it opened lower on the first day of 2022, and looking closely at the price that the greenback reached prior to the second round of the general elections.

The exchange rate depreciated 0.11% to 851.16 Chilean pesos per dollar in the local market, according to the Diario Financiero de Chile.

The coin was hit after the leftist’s victory Gabriel Boric in the presidential ballot, although he has already recovered from almost all the losses suffered after the election.

During the year 2021, the greenback accumulated an increase of 141 pesos, the largest annual fall of the exchange rate since 1991.

“This week we will be very attentive to important data in the United States, which could generate volatility in the greenback at a global level”said Ricardo Bustamante, Capitaria’s head of trading studies.

Globally, according to Reuters, commodity markets were quickly returning to normal after the past 18-20 stellar months for most of them.

Crude prices were up around 1.3% as of 10:30 GMT, supported by tight supply and hopes for a further recovery in demand in 2022, spurred in part by the view that the variance is unlikely. The coronavirus omicron once again paralyzes the world economy.