Overview

• Banco Nación closed at AR$1,335 for sale and AR$1,295 for purchase on Friday, while the BCRA’s banking-system average posted AR$1,337.23 and AR$1,294.81.
• The wholesale dollar traded around AR$1,321 as the parallel blue reached AR$1,345, its highest since April 11.
• Both the official retail and the blue rose about AR$25 over the week, with the official logging a third consecutive daily increase.
• The exchange-rate gap held near 1.8% and the financial dollars stayed clustered, with the MEP around AR$1,328–1,329 and the CCL near AR$1,332–1,334.
• Gross reserves were reported at roughly US$41.499 billion after a US$19 million daily uptick and a weekly decline of about US$408 million within the BCRA’s roughly AR$1,000–AR$1,400 band framework.