© Reuters. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange advances 0.36% in its first rise in April
Sao Paulo, Apr 4 (.).- The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (B3) rose 0.36% this Tuesday and its reference index, the , stood at 101,869 points, returning to positive territory after two consecutive days at the decrease, according to the consolidated data of the closing.
Despite the fact that the leading papers ended the trading day in the red, the titles of the banking sector drove the first increase of the month of the Ibovespa.
With more than 3.27 million operations, the largest Latin American parquet by number of businesses totaled a volume of 20,288 million reais (about 3,992 million dollars or 3,643 million euros at today’s exchange rates).
The common shares of the mining company Vale (-2.80%), one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of iron, ended the session as the most traded in the B3, followed by the preferential shares of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (-0.90%).
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar appreciated 0.23% against the real, which ended the day quoted in the commercial exchange rate at 5,081 reais for purchase and 5,082 reais for sale.
