Price of the dollar, Chile: Check the price of the US dollar. Today, Sunday, January 9

The dollar price In Chile it opened lower due to a weakness in the US currency at the beginning of the day, and a rise in copper prices.

The exchange rate started the day trading at 830.53 pesos per dollarAccording to the Bloomberg agency, a 0.9% decline compared to Thursday’s close, at 838.15 pesos.

According to Reuters, the greenback registered a slight fall, but was still on track to close the week higher before the publication of some outstanding labor data in the United States at 13:30 GMT.

On the other hand, copper rose 0.6% to US $ 9.592 a ton on the London Metal Exchange (LME).

In addition, Chile recorded inflation of 7.2% in 2021, well above the Central Bank’s range, after prices rose 0.8% in December, the state-run National Statistics Institute (INE) reported on Friday.

The agency said that the rise registered in the last month of the year was due to increases in the prices of transport and food and non-alcoholic beverages.

“In the last month of the year, ten of the twelve divisions that make up the CPI basket contributed positive impacts on the monthly variation of the index and two had negative impacts”said the INE in a note.