© Reuters. Sao Paulo stock market falls more than 2.1% with the dollar above 5 reais
Sao Paulo, Apr 19 (.).- The index, the main one of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (B3), fell 2.12% this Wednesday and fell to 103,912 points, in a day in which the dollar rose of the five reais, according to the data at the end of the session.
The Brazilian stock market reflected external movements, with fears of risk, and doubts about the fiscal regulation package presented by the Government to Congress to adjust budget expenditures.
This Wednesday, in the commercial exchange rate, the main benchmark in the foreign exchange market in Brazil, the dollar appreciated 2.21% against the real, which ended the day at 5,085 reais for purchase and 5,086 for sale.
The US currency once again operated above the symbolic bar of five reais.
Thus, the largest Latin American parquet by turnover ended the session with more than 3.81 million operations and a total of 24,267 million reais (about 4,771 million dollars).
The ordinary shares of the mining company Vale (-2.92%), one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of iron, were the most traded on this day, followed by the preferential shares of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (+3 ,twenty-one %).