The dollar remains on the rise, but still does not exceed 4,800 pesos

The dollar in Colombia is closing the week of February 6 to 10 upward, although without reaching 4,800 pesos.

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This Friday, the currency opened at 4,745 pesos, a value that, in addition, has been the lowest that has been registered in the day.

The highest price, for its part, has been, for now, 4,797 pesos. And other values ​​that have been negotiated have been 4,754, 4,759.05, 4,761.38, 4,765, 4,774, 4,788 and 4,791 pesos.

(See: Colombia, the country with the highest inflation in Latin America during 2022).

At 12:00 pm, the average price of the dollar on Friday was 4,772.04 pesos, 29.99 pesos above the Representative Market Rate (TRM) of the day, which is 4,742.05 pesos.

During the week, the dollar registered its strongest increase on Monday, February 6, when it rose more than 100 pesos.

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This week’s increases, according to Diego Gómez, specialist in the exchange market at Corficolombianaare due to the fact that the numbers of job market in usa strengthened the US currency globally since last Friday, February 3.

He assured that since when price increases began to be presented worldwide, a year ago, it was warned that it would be essential to monitor this market, since it is important for the inflation of services in the US and in January the creation of payrolls did not farms far exceeded expectations and unemployment fell to its lowest level since 1969.

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