Mexican Peso Holds The Line As IPC Cools From Record; Five Leaders And Laggards
The peso trades near 18.33 per dollar in early dealings, a touch firmer than Thursday’s close after an overnight bounce from the 18.24–18.26 support band.
The dollar index hovers around the low-99s, still soft on changing Fed-cut odds, which keeps carry-friendly currencies supported. Locally, the tone remains “cautious easing” after Banxico’s recent 25 bp trim, with still-positive real rates anchoring the currency.
Thursday’s session told a two-part story. In FX, USD/MXN tested 18.24, then rebounded toward 18.34 as the greenback steadied into the U.S. close. On the four-hour chart, MACD flipped up and RSI recovered from sub-40, pointing to a tactical bounce toward 18.38–18.45 resistance.
On the daily chart, the broader trend is still gently lower from early-November highs; price sits beneath clustered moving averages with daily MACD negative but flattening and RSI around the mid-40s.
That keeps 18.24/18.20 as key support; a daily close above 18.45 would neutralize the short-term down-bias. Equities cooled after setting all-time highs earlier in the week above 64,000.
The S&P/BMV IPC fell roughly 1.1% on Thursday to the 62,500 area as global risk sold off and rate-cut optimism faded.
EWW, the Mexico ETF, slipped about 1.1% on Wednesday’s NAV and showed no meaningful new flow prints into the U.S. close. Oil’s drift near the low-$60s mid-week removed a modest tailwind for heavyweight defensives.
Top five winners (Thursday close): Kimberly-Clark de México A; Grupo Aeroportuario del Sureste (ASUR B); Industrias Peñoles; Grupo Televisa CPO; Orbia.
Top five losers (Thursday close): Qualitas; Volaris; Grupo Bimbo; Grupo Financiero Banorte; Grupo Carso.
Fundamentals still lean peso-supportive: a wide real-rate cushion, stable fiscal guidance, and resilient services activity. The near-term risks are external—U.S. data swings that jerk the dollar and equities, and any sharp rise in Treasury yields that crimps carry.
For today, watch whether DXY extends its bounce and whether USD/MXN can clear 18.45; failure there would reopen 18.24/18.20, while a break points to 18.60.
On the IPC, momentum has cooled on four-hour signals, but the daily uptrend from late summer holds unless the index loses the 62,200–62,400 shelf decisively.
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