The representative market interest rate (TRM) for tomorrow, April 16, is $ 3,620.40, the financial regulator said.
The price of the dollar opened lower on Thursday, at $ 3,656.64. The currency continued to fall in the morning hours and closed in $3,618.75.
The representative market interest rate (TRM) for tomorrow, April 16, is $ 3,620.40, the financial regulator said.
In the Colombian market, the stocks that valued 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 (reference for Colombia) rose 0.42% to US $ 66.89. North Sea crude finished the day on the International Exchange Futures up US $ 0.28 compared to the last negotiation, when it closed at US $ 66.61.
The renewed outlook for a recovery in demand in the second half of the year boosted crude oil prices during the session.
The International Energy Agency has revised its March 2021 forecast as a whole by an additional 230 billion barrels per day.
The New York Stock Exchange, for its part, ended in green numbers and records this Thursday for the Dow Jones and the S&P, following a string of positive quarterly economic indicators.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average reached 0.90% to 34,035.99 points, above 34,000 points for the first timeMeanwhile, the expanded S&P 500 index (+ 1.11%) stood at 4,170.42 units and the Nasdaq (+ 1.31%) closed at 14,038.76.
Retail data showed the effects of the $ 1.9 trillion stimulus plan, up 9.8% in March from February as many households qualified for a US government check for $ 1,400 per person.
In addition, new claims for unemployment benefits, an indicator of the number of layoffs in the United States, have fallen to an all-time low since the pandemic turned the labor market upside down.
The Labor Department reported on Thursday that there were 576,000 requests last week, well below analysts’ expectations. which is the lowest level since March 14, 2020just before the pandemic broke out and caused millions of layoffs.
On the other hand, industrial production in the United States rose slightly in March, driven by mining, after the polar cold snap in February, but the overall level is still lower than before the pandemic.
According to data released by the Federal Reserve on Thursday, the increase in March was 1.4% from February. It is a lower figure than expected by analysts who expected + 2.9%.
According to Thursday’s data, manufacturing activity in the New York and Philadelphia regions in turn peaked in several years.