Buenos Aires, June 16 (EFE).- The S&P Merval index of the shares of the leading companies listed on the Buenos Aires Stock Exchange closed this Tuesday with a drop of 2.92%, to 3,254,705.52 units.
Meanwhile, the general S&P BYMA index fell 3.49% to 136,871,001.38 points.
Among the leaders, those that fell the most were those of Transportadora Gas del Norte (-4.4%) and Transportadora Gas del Sur (-4.4%), while only the shares of IRSA (+0.6%), Grupo Supervielle (+0.4%) and Grupo Financiero Valores (+0.1%) ended in positive territory.
In the bond market, Argentine sovereign securities in dollars operated with an uneven trend, while Argentina’s risk index rose to 430 basis points.
In the foreign exchange market, the US dollar rose 5 pesos, to 1,455 pesos for sale to the public in the state-owned Banco Nación, while in the official wholesale market it rose to 1,436 per unit.
In the informal currency market, the parallel or ‘blue’ exchange rate rose 10 pesos, to 1,470 pesos for sale.
The ‘counted with settlement’ dollar (CCL, which consists of buying shares or bonds locally with Argentine pesos and selling them in dollars on Wall Street), rose 0.4%, to 1,496.40 pesos per unit.
Meanwhile, the ‘stock market dollar’ or ‘MEP dollar’ (which is obtained by purchasing assets that are listed both in pesos and in dollars, are paid in pesos when purchased and are sold in dollars in the Argentine stock market) rose 0.2%, to 1,453.73 pesos per unit. EFE