The official dollar rises to $ 1,515 and the wholesaler at $ 1,475
Table of Contents
- The official dollar rises to $ 1,515 and the wholesaler at $ 1,475
- Martín Lousteau and Ramiro Marra against Toto Caputo
- Surplus in the trade balance
- Bonds fall and country risk rises to 1,463 points
- The unemployment continues at 7.6%
- Energy generation fell 0.2 percent
- Cristiano Rattazzi crossed Toto Caputo and asked to let the dollar “go wherever”
- Milei and Caputo embrace a detonated plan
- Who will take the last dollar
- The dollar rises to $ 1515 at Banco Nación
The official dollar at the National Bank is quoted on Friday at $ 1,465 for purchase and $ 1,515 for sale, with a rise of $ 20 in relation to the last closure.
The wholesale dollar is operated at $ 1,466 and $ 1,475, new ceiling of the exchange band established by the Central Bank.
In turn, in the average of the banks for retailers, there is $ 1,465 and $ 1,520.
Meanwhile, the MEP is located at $ 1,534 and the one in cash with liquidation at $ 1,548.
For its part, the dollar “Blue” is offered to $ 1,495 and $ 1,515 for both quotes.
Martín Lousteau and Ramiro Marra against Toto Caputo
The exchange rate that led the retail dollar above 1500 pesos unleashed a political storm. Ramiro Marra, former reference of Freedom Avanza (Lla), seeks revenge at the worst moment of the government and launched strong criticism from his social networks.
“Dollar at 1500 pesos. Take my cell phone because if I tweet I send it well to shit.” The phrase, which quickly went viral, reflects the growing tension even within the libertarian space.
Marra was displaced from the government after a confrontation with Karina Milei, although she maintains a presence in the debate on social networks.
Criticism against the government came from all spaces. The senator and leader of the UCR, Martín Lousteau, pointed directly against the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, amid the debate for the national budget by 2026.
“I want to tell Caputo that, instead of tweeting so much, he comes to Congress. He never came. That he comes to defend a budget that says that in 15 months the dollar will be cheaper than now,” he launched in an ironic tone.
Lousteau questioned that the government is retaining the contributions of the National Treasury (ATN), funds for the provinces for financial emergencies. “The fiscal balance cannot be sustained with silver that is from others,” he shot
Surplus in the trade balance
The commercial balance registered in August the highest value so far this year: it was at 1,402 million dollars. However, with respect to the same month of 2024, the commercial exchange collapsed 25.2 percent.
With a positive result by twentieth first consecutive month, according to the report published this Thursday by INDEC, the estimate showed a reduction of 473 million dollars at the year -on -year level, against a very low base of comparison.
Exports totaled 7,865 million dollars –centrally for the drag of currencies related to soybeans -and imports, 6,463 million dollars -which although they are very bulky, have been declining by the cooling of the economy. The positive balance generated an intermensual increase of 54.5 percent: in July it had been 907 million dollars. Agro continues to be the main currency producer, followed by energy, which grows in participation.
Bonds fall and country risk rises to 1,463 points
After starting up, the bond market turned and now operates with a majority of falls, which raised the country risk to 1,463 points.
The fall of the titles reaches 2.6% as in the case of Al29D, while, on the other hand, the Merval falls 1.6% and the ADRs in New York quote with a majority of casualties.
This scenario is presented despite the fact that the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo, said that all debt maturities will be paid.
The unemployment continues at 7.6%
By Mara Pedrazzoli
In the second quarter of 2025, the unemployment reached 7.6 percent of the economically active population, a level similar to that of a year ago but shows that 7,421 people went to swell the ranks of unemployment in the last year, according to INDEC data.
For its part, the activity rate, which reflects how many people participate in the labor market, was 48.1 percent and showed a slight fall, possibly linked to the discouragement of those who do not get employment. The proportion of actually occupied people was also reduced, which went on to represent 44.5 percent of the total population.
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Energy generation fell 0.2 percent
In the second quarter of the year, the original serial index of the Synthetic Energy Indicator (ISE) that measures INDEC, on the dynamics of energy activity in the country recorded a 0.2 percent drop, in relation to the same period of 2024. That is, the performance of the production of the different components of electricity, gas, derivatives of oil, self -generation and energy cogeneration, and biofuel consecutive
The index of the seasonalized series in the analyzed section presented, according to the survey of the official body, a decrease of 0.4 percent on the anterior quarter and the trend-cycle index showed a positive variation close to zero with respect to the previous measurement.
Cristiano Rattazzi crossed Toto Caputo and asked to let the dollar “go wherever”
In a week of strong financial tension, with The country risk climbing 1368 points And the dollar marking new records, the businessman italo-Argentine Cristiano Rattazzi -Exceo of Fiat in Argentina and currently by Grupo Modena- he returned to the center of the scene with explosive statements. “I see a braking of everyone in confidence in Argentina “he launched in radio statements.
“The problem is the superb of wanting to lower the dollar. We are a liberal government. Freedom says that the dollar does what you want. Let me go where to go, ”he launched one of the men who always played for Mauricio Macri. For Rattazzi, trying to force the loss of the currency is a serious mistake that erodes trust, a scarce good in Argentina.
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Milei and Caputo embrace a detonated plan
By Leandro
In less than two years, the financial program of President Javier Milei and Minister Luis Caputo was out of combat. In the last hours, the dollar, the country risk, and the postcard of a central bank (BCRA) selling bulk currencies to try to control the overflows, ended a plan that they embrace, in solitude, the president and its Minister of Economy.
It is that, added to the pressures of economic power and allies so that there are changes of course and people, concrete doubts were added that technicians of the Monetary Fund (IMF) propose in private government officials. Logical: “Toto” asked the agency 20 billion when he ran out of dollars, and promised in return a flotation scheme between bands and an accumulation of reservations.
Not only did he comply, but ended – in less than three months – with the detonated band scheme, the dollar still spending the loan silver to stop it (in some private banks the official dollar exceeded 1500 pesos), an economy entering recession and the country risk with numbers that speculate with a default in the medium term.
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Who will take the last dollar
By Federico Kucher
“We are going to sell to the last dollar to defend the ceiling of the exchange band.” This was said this Thursday night the Minister of Economy, Luis Caputo. It is a phrase that left more fear than certainty among investors, among whom distrust grows in the economic program, the government’s ability to contain the exchange run and guarantee the payment of sovereign bonds.
The citi Porteña lived a day of very high tension, with financial dollars around 1550 pesos, the country risk around 1450 points and the Central Bank intervening with almost 380 million dollars to try to contain the run.
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The dollar rises to $ 1515 at Banco Nación
The official dollar at the National Bank opened with a rise of $ 20 and is located at $ 1,465 for purchase and $ 1,515 for sale.
