The blue dollar dropped $2 this Monday, March 14, and traded at $197 for the purchase and at $200 for sale In Buenos Aires city.
A) Yes, the gap with the wholesaler, which operated at $109.30, is located at 84,35%.
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With the closure of agreement with the IMF. The blue dollar has been at its lowest since December 2021.
The blue dollar came with minimal fluctuations, after the jump it registered in the third week of January, when currency climbed $10and was consolidated in the days prior to the announcement of the beginning of understanding. It has since been decompressed.
Attention is still on global market reaction and in Argentina to Russia’s attack on Ukraine, that shot up the prices of oil, gas, electricity and agricultural raw materials.
The price of the blue dollar in the last 30 days
In the first days of March, the blue dollar erased the gains that had been recorded in 2022. This is how the second half of the month starts with a drop of $9.
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In January it was up $5 or 2.4% over the month, while in February it was up $2 end-to-end.
The price of the blue dollar in 2021
Throughout 2021, it added $42 or 25.3%, well below inflation for the same period, which accumulated 50.9%.
The blue dollar deflated during the first quarter of 2021: it started the year at $165, but at the beginning of April it touched the floor of $139.
It had a slight rebound and on April 28 the parallel price reached $162. During the following weeks, the blue dollar remained below that value, until June 24, when it broke the ceiling of $170 again.
At the end of July, it broke through another psychological barrier, that of $180. Except for brief intervals, the rest of the year remained above these levels.
In August, the blue price remained relatively calm and moved between $178 and $183.
In the days before the PASO legislative elections on September 12, the price climbed again and reached $186.50. It remained around that value until the first weeks of October.
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Towards the end of October, the blue dollar returned to touch its maximum nominal value, of $195, and days before the November elections it reached $207.
During the first weeks of December, the price spiked to $195.50. However, it picked up momentum over the end of the year, when it briefly traded at $210, to close 2021 at $208.