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The peso held near 18.65 per dollar, close to its one-year high, as a softer dollar was offset by weaker remittance flows. Mexican unemployment edged up to 2.8% in July, and Banxico has started a gradual easing cycle, cutting its rate 25bp to 7.75%.
Slower remittances and a more gradual Banxico easing path leave the peso's direction mixed, which affects the cost of USD-priced feed imports in Mexico. The article describes currency conditions rather than a new shock.
Not enough comparable past events yet for a historical read.
Moves of each commodity's benchmark from the last close before the event. Historical reads pool past events of the same kind; they describe what happened, not what will. Not investment advice.