HERMOSILLO, Sonora. – Pressed against the dollar is how the peso opened operations this Wednesday, in an environment where the dollar is gaining ground against almost all of the world’s currencies and nervousness due to the rise of Covid-19 infections in the world.
According to information from Bloomberg on its electronic portal, the dollar for interbank transactions will be sold next Friday at 20.24 units and bought at 20.80 pesos per dollar.
In retail, in Citibanamex bank windows, the green currency has a retail price of 20.69 pesos, 27 cents more than at the end of Tuesday, and will be bought at 19.69 pesos per unit.
Today, financial markets worldwide are concerned about the rise of Covid-19 and the logistics and distribution problems of vaccines in the world.
Also gleaned from downward data on consumer confidence in Europe and the Americas, they await the Federal Reserve’s monetary policy decision in the United States.
Experts expect the reference interest rate in the United States to remain unchanged. In addition, investors are waiting for a new fiscal stimulus package 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: The Standard & Poor’s is down 1.41%, the Dow Jones is 1.38% and the Nasdaq technology indicator is down 1.18%.
In local territory, the S & P / BMV index also shows a decrease of 2.20% to settle at 44 thousand 63.25 points.