Significantly Reduced Surplus of Central Bank Operations in Currency Market
The surplus of the Central Bank of AR in the currency market reduced 17.2 times ($ 142.8 million) last year In comparison with 2013 ($ 2 billion 457 million).
According to the CBA review of the monetary policy for 2014 published on the website of the bank, these operations are used to prevent excessive appreciation of the national currency.
As previously reported, the Central Bank to maintain the national currency and to meet the demand for the US dollar sold foreign currency of $ 1 billion 127 million in December 2014 and acquired about $ 1 billion 270 million in January - November. --17D-
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- Economics
- 27 February 2015 19:09
Economics
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