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Dollar today and country riskPRO
Today's selling rates and their change against the previous business day's close. Below, the Central Bank's official reference.
Market data from unofficial sources (Yahoo Finance, DolarApi, ArgentinaDatos), delayed. Not investment advice.
What each rate measures
- Official dollar
- The retail rate banks charge the public in the official market. Above is the selling rate reported by DolarApi; the BCRA bar shows the official average.
- Blue dollar
- The informal market rate, outside the banking system. It has no official source: the value comes from surveys of informal exchange houses published by the media.
- MEP dollar
- The MEP dollar (electronic payment market), or “stock-market dollar”, comes from buying a bond or stock in pesos and selling it in dollars inside Argentina. It is a legal operation done through a bank or broker.
- CCL dollar
- The CCL (contado con liquidación) works like the MEP, but the dollars are credited to an account abroad. That is why companies and investors use it as their usual reference.
- FX gap
- The percentage difference between a financial dollar and the official one. Here it is (CCL ÷ official − 1) × 100, with selling rates.
- Country risk
- Country risk (JP Morgan's EMBI index) measures, in basis points, how much more Argentine dollar bonds yield than US Treasury bonds. 100 basis points equal 1 percentage point.