The representative market rate (TRM) for tomorrow, April 16, is $ 3,620.40, the Financial Superintendency said.
The dollar price opened lower on Thursday at $ 3,656.64. The currency continued to decline in the morning and closed in $3,618.75.
The representative market rate (TRM) for tomorrow, April 16, is $ 3,620.40, the Financial Superintendency said.
On the Colombian market, the shares that appreciated the most today were Avianca Holdings (+ 35.29%), Cemex Latam Holdings (+ 5.96%) and Conconcreto (+ 3.48%). The Colcap index had a variation of 0.06%.
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The price of a barrel of Brent oil (a benchmark for Colombia) rose 0.42% to $ 66.89. The North Sea crude ended the day on the International Exchange Futures with an increase of $ 0.28 compared to the last trading, when it closed at $ 66.61.
The renewed outlook for demand recovery in the second half of the year raised the price of crude oil during the session.
The International Energy Agency has revised its March forecast for 2021 as a whole to another 230 billion barrels a day.
The New York Stock Exchange, in turn, ended in green figures and with records this Thursday for the Dow Jones and S&P, after a series of positive quarterly economic indicators.
The Dow Jones industrial average gained 0.90% to 34,035.99 points, for the first time over 34,000 points. Meanwhile, the extended S&P 500 index (+ 1.11%) was at 4,170.42 units, and the Nasdaq (+ 1.31%) closed at 14,038.76.
Retail sales figures showed the effects of the US $ 1.9 trillion stimulus plan, up 9.8% in March from February, as many households qualified for a US government check worth 1,400 USD per person.
In addition, new claims for unemployment benefits, an indicator of the level of redundancies in the United States, have fallen to a low level since the pandemic shook the labor market.
The Department of Labor reported on Thursday that there were 576,000 applications last week, well below analysts’ expectations. which marks the lowest level since March 14, 2020, even before the pandemic went into business and caused millions of layoffs.
On the other hand, industrial production in the United States registered a slight increase in March, due to mining, after the cold cold wave of February, but the general level is still lower than before the pandemic.
The increase was 1.4% in March compared to February, according to data released on Thursday by the Federal Reserve. It is a lower figure than expected by analysts who expected + 2.9%.
In turn, production activity in the New York and Philadelphia regions peaked in a few years, according to data on Thursday.