Review he price of the dollar TODAYFriday, October 4. The exchange rate opened higher in S/3,7318 in the exchange session of the Central Reserve Bank (BCRP). Similarly, on the ‘How much is the dollar’ page, it is currently detailed that in the parallel market the price of the exchange rate is at S/3,720 for purchase and S/3,740 for sale.
According to experts consulted by Infobae Peruthe exchange rate could have different fluctuations this year. Meanwhile, Jorge Luis Ojeda, professor of finance at the UPC, He is confident that the dollar will trend upwards in 2024, Ana Lucía Rondón, Investment Associate at Prima AFP, rather believes that its value will return to S/3.70 in the second half. For his part, the president of BCR, Julio Velardebelieved that the sun remains the strongest currency in the region this year.
After 2023 classified as one of the worst years for the economy, the former Minister of Economy and Finance of Peru, Alex Contrerashas maintained that the conditions are met for 2024 to be the recovery year.
The government’s forecast is to reach an expansion of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) of at least 3%. “Leaving aside the atypical year 2023, the Peruvian economy has a great capacity for growth. In general, what we envision is a recovery, without the temporary factors that have played against it recently,” Contreras told the media.
Los climatic phenomenaespecially ‘El Niño’, could have an unfavorable impact on Peru’s economy, but the minister has expressed confidence in the stability and in the investment projects that he hopes will be consolidated in the coming months.
Despite the political crisis that Peru is currently experiencing and against all odds, the economy of this country boasts of being a of the most stable of the Latin American region, because while other currencies have experienced fluctuations, the peruvian sun has been strengthened.
The coronavirus pandemic generated a series of negative economic effects worldwide – such as inflation – which, also combined with Russia’s invasion of Ukraine and local monetary policy decisions, have been weakening the dollar.
However, the Peruvian currency has shown resilience to these events and has strengthened against the greenback and the euro. If the positive factors that have supported the sun in recent months continue, the currency could continue with the same streak in the coming months and even years.
The resistance of the Peruvian sol in the face of other adversities that have managed to hit other currencies has made it become a “shelter currency”especially in countries where dollars have been scarce, as is the case of Bolivia.
Although economic analysts have reduced their growth expectations for the Peruvian sol for the next two years, it is nevertheless expected that macroeconomic balances will continue to support the sun.
The sol has been legal tender in Peru since 1991 and replaced intiwhich circulated between 1985 and 1991, was initially also called as “new sun” to differentiate it from its predecessor, but in 2015 it is called only the sun.
The origin of the new sun is understood after the world crisis of 1929, which led to a deep economic and exchange crisis in the country, as well as the creation of the Central Reserve Bank of Peru. It was during the first year of Alberto Fujimori’s government that the new sun was promoted to balance the hyperinflation and reorganize the economy.
After it came into effect, one sol was equivalent to one million intis or one billion “old” sols; Today the currency is divided into 100 cents and its issuance is regulated by the Central Reserve Bank of Peru.
Currently circulating coins of 10, 20, 50 cents, 1, 2 and 5 soles and bills of 10, 20, 50, 100 and 200 soles. Previously, 1 cent coins were also minted, but these were withdrawn from circulation in May 2011, while in January 2019 the 5 cent coins went out of circulation.