Close of the dollar Today, Tuesday, January 11, 2022: Dollar closes down at S / 3,908 - Exchange rate - SBS - BCR

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The dollar price in Peru it closed lower on Tuesday and hit a six-month low, as investors waited for US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to deliver his testimony at a Senate hearing.

The exchange rate ended the day trading at S / 3,908 per dollar, a fall of 0.66% compared to Monday’s close, at S / 3,934, according to data from the Central Reserve Bank of Peru (BCR).

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Today’s result scores a minimum of six months, since on July 2, 2021 the greenback was traded at S / 3,904.

So far this year, the greenback accumulates a decline of 2.07% so far in 2022, compared to the result recorded at the end of last year at S / 3.991.

During the session, the BCR It placed “swaps” of interest rates for a term of six months for S / 50 million at an average rate of 3.83%.

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It also auctioned certificates of deposits with a variable rate at three months for S / 299.9 million at an average margin of 0.04%, as well as one-month certificates of deposits for S / 500 million at an average rate of 2.97%.

Globally, the dollar It struggled to find a definite trend Tuesday and was trading within recent ranges as investors waited for US Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell to deliver testimony at a Senate hearing later that day.

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World stocks were higher, following a late-session Wall Street rally on Monday, while Treasury yields posted slight gains. Equity markets have had a weak start to the year, on bets that the Fed will take a more aggressive stance to tighten its monetary policy this year.

According to Archyde.com, investors expect Powell to provide clues to the expected pace of interest rate hikes this year when he answers questions from the Senate Banking Committee, which is expected to approve him a second four-year term as head of the Fed.

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On the other hand, in the parallel market or the main exchange houses, the dollar it was bought at S / 3,890 and sold at S / 3,935, according to the portal cuantoestaeldolar.pe.