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The price of the dollar in Peru worked in the informal market (parallel) to the rise today, Friday February 5, 2021. The exchange rate rose to S / 3,635 for purchase and S / 3,660 for sale, said stock exchange houses in Lima.
On the other hand, the dollar traded in the interbank market at S / 3.645 in the interbank market, according to data from the Central Reserve Bank (BCR).
The monetary entity indicated that the US currency has made an improvement of 0.72% so far in 2021 compared to the result achieved at the end of last year (S / 3,619).
The foreign currency appreciated 9.20% at the end of 2020 as a result of the pandemic impact of the coronavirus and the political-social crisis.
“Currency market volatility is still high, taking into account the uncertainty related to the duration of the global recession and the COVID-19 outbreaks observed worldwideSaid the BCR in its latest inflation report.
The institution has the volatility of the dollar in the last quarter of last year until the episode of vacancy for the president, which brought the US currency to a historic high of S / 3,667.
The monetary entity has intervened through currency swaps and has accumulated a balance of S / 7,545 million of this instrument on December 16.
Projections for closing the exchange rate in 2021 they will be between S / 3.43 and S / 3.54, while for next year it would be between S / 3.40 and S / 3.50.