Buenos Aires Stock Exchange Closes 4.26%

Buenos Aires, Nov. 19 (EFE) .- The S&P Merval index of the shares of the leading companies listed on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange closed this Friday with a 4.26% drop to 85,695.15 points.

For its part, the S&P BYMA General Index closed at 3,574,896.33 units, down 4.05%.

The stock trading volume totaled 1,573.4 million pesos (approximately $15.6 million), with a balance of nine increases, 33 decreases and nine actions with no changes in the overall panel.

Among the leaders were stocks that closed negatively, Aluar (-5.42%), Banco BBVA Argentina (-5.36%) and Transportadora Gas del Sur (-5.23%).

Meanwhile, Argentina’s public securities fell by an average of 0.5% in their dollar prices, while Argentina’s country risk index rose 0.1% to 1,744 basis points.

In the foreign exchange market, the price of the US dollar remained stable in the state-owned Banco Nación, where it closed at an all-time high of 99.50 pesos for purchase and 105.50 pesos for sale to the public, while the wholesale dollar advanced five cents. , to a new record of 100.46 pesos per unit.

For its part, the price of US currency in the informal market rose by fifty cents to 201.50 pesos per unit for sale.

Meanwhile, the dollar’s value in the financial mechanisms for more sophisticated investors showed a mixed trend this Friday.

The so-called dollar “cash with settlement” (CCL, which consists of buying stocks or bonds locally with Argentine pesos and selling them in dollars on Wall Street) rose 0.4% to a record 213.57 pesos per unit.

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