Venezuela Devalues Currency by More Than 40% in Dicom Auction
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Venezuela devalued its Dicom foreign exchange rate by more than 40 percent to 171.67 sovereign bolivars per dollar from 96.84 in an auction on Friday, one day after President Nicolas Maduro ordered a minimum wage increase.
The Dicom rate had moved little since the government’s 95 percent devaluation and redenomination of the currency in August. Venezuela’s economy has collapsed as revenue from oil production has plunged, spurring widespread shortages of food and medicine, and an annual inflation rate of 199,900 percent, according to Bloomberg’s Cafe Con Leche Index.