The commission said it would continue to offer up to US$400 million a day from Feb. 2 to March 31 whenever the peso sees sharp losses.
The Mexican cement giant is burdened with a heavy dollar-denominated debt load from its 2007 acquisition of Australian building products company Rinker.
The central bank sold the dollars at an average weighted price of 18.4399 pesos per dollar.
The peso weakened to 18.2050 per dollar on Friday morning.
The central bank sold the dollars at an average weighted price of 17.5250 pesos per dollar.
The weakness in Russia, Mexico, and Norway as a derivative of lower commodity prices doesn’t look likely to change anytime soon.
The Mexican central bank governor said an expected acceleration in the U.S. economy should fuel a pick-up in Mexican exports.
he central bank said it was raising interest rates even though inflation was at a record low because the Fed had hiked by a quarter percentage point.
It later trimmed gains to trade at 16.9795 per dollar.
The local currency traded at 17.05 pesos per dollar.