©Reuters. Sao Paulo Stock Exchange chains third consecutive drop attentive to foreign market
Sao Paulo, Apr 6 (.).- The index, the main benchmark of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, fell 0.55% this Wednesday and at the end of the trading day stood at 118,227 points, chaining its third consecutive fall with the Brazilian stock market attentive to the international scenario.
Inflation forecasts in the United States caused the stock market to lose almost the same as the day before, which was close to 2%, but in the final stretch of operations some shares rebounded and managed to reduce losses before closing.
The São Paulo parquet thus recorded a financial volume of 32,179 million reais (about 6,824 million dollars) and totaled a little more than 4.6 million transactions.
Always in the red, the largest Latin American stock market by traded volume moved between a maximum score of 118,885 integers, obtained at the opening of operations, and a minimum of 116,790 units, when it fell momentarily by 1.75%.
After a fall of 1.97% on Tuesday, the indicator subtracted 657 units from its accumulated score on Wednesday.
Gains were led by ordinary (+3.76%) and preferential (+2.93%) papers from the state-owned electricity company Eletrobras, followed by those of the ordinary type from the paper and pulp manufacturer Suzano (+2.16%). ).
The losses in the stock market, meanwhile, were led by the ordinary shares of the travel agency network CVC Brasil (-8.97%), seconded by the unitary shares of Banco Inter (-8.70%) and those of the type ordinary price of the online shopping discount platform Meliuz (-8.33%).
In turn, the most traded securities on the day were the ordinary ones of the mining company Vale (+1.51%), one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of iron.
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar appreciated 1.20% against the real and ended the day trading at 4.715 reais for both purchase and sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.