The currency rose during the negotiations of the day. At the same time, the New York Stock Exchange showed red numbers despite good unemployment data in the United States.
The dollar closed the negotiations this Thursday with a price of $ 3,668 and during the day it traded at an average of $ 3,658, which represents an increase of $ 23 compared to the TRM set by the Financial Superintendence for today ($ 3,635.12).
Parallel to this, Wall Street opened the session this Thursday in red and its main indicator, the Dow Jones of Industrialists, fell 0.40% despite the fact that the latest data from the labor market continues to point to the economic recovery.
The U.S. Department of Labor reported that the number of claims for unemployment benefits fell to below 700,000 last week , the first time since that has occurred since the COVID-19 pandemic began.
According to analysts, there is some concern about a possible increase in inflation, which the leaders have considered would be temporary, derived from the acceleration of the economy and the fiscal and monetary stimuli.
By sectors, the greatest loss was for energy (-2.06%), coinciding with a decrease in the price of the intermediate barrel of Texas to 58.89 dollars (-3.76%), as fears for the recovery reappeared Of demand.
Likewise, the euro depreciated this Thursday against the dollar to a minimum that had not been recorded in four and a half months, below US $ 1.18, after the publication of figures from the US economy, which were better than expected. expected and pushed to the greenback.
These data come amid a warning from the International Monetary Fund about the uneven recovery in global economies.
“We are seeing a general improvement for the global economy, but many countries and people – too many – are still lagging behind,” said entity spokesman Gerry Rice at a virtual press conference.
“We’ve described divergent recoveries in the past and countries are at very different levels, and I think we’re still seeing that big picture,” Rice added.
The IMF plans to update its forecasts for the global economy before its biannual meeting on April 6, after in its last report in January it improved the outlook predicting world growth of 5.5% compared to a forecast of 5.2 % in October.