Cuba: dollar opening rate today March 18 USD to CUP

This was the behavior of the US currency during the first minutes of the day

After the opening of the session, the US dollar traded at the opening at 25 Cuban pesos at the official exchange rate, which implied a 4.18% increase compared to the previous day's price, when it closed with 24 Cuban pesos at the official exchange rate.

As for the changes of this day compared to previous days, it adds four successive sessions in green. The volatility figure is notoriously higher than that accumulated in the last year, so it is going through a phase of instability.

In the last year, the US dollar has changed by a maximum of 25 Cuban pesos at the official exchange rate, while its lowest level has been 23.80 Cuban pesos at the official exchange rate.

The Cuban currency The Cuban

peso is the legal tender in Cuba and is used by the majority of the population that is divided into 100 units called cents.

As of January 1, 2021, the Cuban convertible peso ceased to exist as a legal tender, since it was the most accepted in the payment of obligations and although it still has legal value, it is not received in the payment of goods and services.

In 2002, the exchange rate was 21 Cuban pesos per convertible peso, but then it devalued to 26 Cuban pesos per convertible peso. As for the dollar, it is equivalent to 25 Cuban pesos and one Cuban convertible peso.

It was not until April 2005 that the administration agreed to devalue the Cuban peso with respect to the convertible by transferring it to 25 Cuban pesos per convertible peso and the latter remained at a 1:1 parity with respect to the dollar plus a tax of 10 per cent, which means that for every dollar changed 12% of its value is lost .

This was the case until January 1, 2021, when the “Zero Day” of monetary unification was agreed, although for many the disappearance of the convertible peso was seen as a devaluation, for others it was only a measure to catch up with the 24 Cuban pesos per dollar.

As a result, demand for foreign exchange also boosted a black exchange market in which one dollar was sold for every 100 Cuban convertible pesos.

Currently there are coins of 1, 2, 5 and 20 cents and 1, 3 and 5 pesos; while in banknotes there are 1, 3, 5, 10, 20, 50, 100, 200, 500 and 1000 pesos.

Economically, the coronavirus pandemic has hit the nation as well as many others globally, which is why the government expects that in 2022 the country will have an increase in its Gross Domestic Product of only 4 percent, after a fall of 11% recorded in 2020, from which in 2021 it could not fully recover, as it was estimated at 2 percent.

It should be noted that Cuba is not part of international organizations such as the World Bank or the International Monetary Fund (IMF), so estimates of economic growth are made by the State itself.

Other factors such as inflation and the devaluation of the peso skyrocketed after the unification of its national currency was launched. In addition, the non-payment of international creditors and the pressure by the United States government with the economic blockade that, according to the Cuban government, these measures have resulted in the loss of 9.15 million dollars.

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