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© Reuters. Leading shares support moderate rise on the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange
Sao Paulo, Apr 18 (.).- The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (B3) rose a discreet 0.14% on Tuesday and its reference index, the , stood at 106,163 points, chaining its second rise, according to Consolidated closing data.
The leading stocks of the parquet, such as those of oil, mining and electricity companies, guaranteed the slight rise in the Brazilian stock market this Tuesday, on a day of certain “relief” after the Government backed down and announced that it would maintain the exemption of some taxes for electronic commerce.
With more than 3.43 million operations, the largest Latin American parquet by number of businesses totaled a volume of 21,010 million reais (about 4,222 million dollars).
The preferred shares of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (+0.51%) ended the session as the most traded in the B3, followed by the common shares of the mining company Vale (-0.11%), one of the largest world producers and exporters of iron.
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar appreciated for the second consecutive day and advanced 0.81% against the real, which ended the session quoted in the commercial exchange rate at 4.975 reais for purchase and 4.976 reais for sale.
