The Dominican peso has registered a cumulative appreciation of 3.62% against the US dollar in the bank buying rate so far this year, which shows a strengthening of the national currency against the foreign currency.
The experts consulted by the Central Bank associate this dynamic with the following factors: monetary policy decisions, the good performance of the foreign exchange-generating sectors, and the conditions of the international environment.
The good flow of foreign currency generation, both in the last stretch of the previous year and in the first months of this year, mainly through tourism, exports and remittances, have been very important.
Those factors, added to the good levels of reserves in dollars of the Central Bank, which in January were at US$13,951.9 million, and the permanence of international interest rates at relatively high levels, which contributes to the flow of capital moving towards emerging economies such as that of the Dominican Republic.
This Thursday at the windows of financial institutions, the buying rate of the dollar was RD$59.82 and the selling rate was RD$61.98. In recent days it has been appreciating between 0.30% and 0.40% per day.
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The depreciation of the Dominican peso against the dollar was moderate and controlled during the year 2025, when compared to the depreciation of 2024 and the average annual depreciation of the last decade.
The Dominican peso during the year 2025 closed with an approximate accumulated drop of 3.13% to 3.39%, below the historical average of the last decade (5%).
In 2024, the accumulated depreciation of the national currency against the US dollar was 5.00 %.
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However, analysts’ expectations place the median exchange rate at RD$66.40 per dollar for the end of 2026, which implies a year-on-year variation of 4.89%, once again below 5%.
