HERMOSILLO, Sonora. – The pressure on the dollar is how the peso opened trading on Wednesday, in an environment where the green dollar is gaining ground against almost all currencies and the world’s nervousness due to the advance of Covid-19 infections in the world.
According to information from Bloomberg on its electronic portal, the dollar for interbank transactions is sold on Friday for 20.24 units and is bought for 20.80 pesos per dollar.
At retail, in Citibanamex bank windows, the green coin has a sale price of 20.69 pesos, 27 cents more than at the close of Tuesday and is bought at 19.69 pesos per unit.
Today, financial markets around the world are worried about the progress of Covid-19 and the problems of logistics and distribution of vaccines around the world.
Also derived from top-down data on consumer confidence in Europe and the Americas, they await the monetary policy decision of the US Federal Reserve.
Experts expect the US benchmark interest rate to remain unchanged. In addition, investors are waiting for a new package of tax incentives proposed by President Joe Biden.
$ MexDerApertura $ FUTUROS S & P / BMV IPC MR21 = 44,720 / -570 / -1.26% USD / MX MR21 = 20.3496 $ / +0.26 / + 1.31%
– Mexican Stock Exchange (@BMVMercados)
January 27, 2021
In this context, the financial markets in the northern neighbor are moving in negative territory: Standard & Poor’s is down 1.41%, Dow Jones is down 1.38% and the Nasdaq technology indicator is down 1.18%.
On the local territory, the S & P / BMV index also shows a decrease of 2.20% to settle at 44 thousand 63.25 points.