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©Reuters. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange advances 1.71% in its third consecutive rise
Sao Paulo, May 23 (.).- The index, the main benchmark of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, rose 1.71% this Monday and at the end of the first session of the week stood at 110,345 points, chaining its third rise consecutively, according to consolidated closing data.
The Brazilian stock market, which rose by 2.02% and then reduced its gains a bit, recovered the symbolic bar of 110,000 points, driven by foreign stock markets encouraged once again by the rise in the international price of raw Materials.
The São Paulo parquet thus recorded a financial volume of 26,025 million reais (about 5,417 million dollars) and totaled 4.0 million transactions.
Always on positive ground, the largest Latin American stock market by traded volume moved between a minimum score of 108,499 integers, obtained at the opening of operations, and a maximum of 110,679 units, with a momentary rise of 2.02%.
After an advance of 1.39% on Friday, the indicator added another 1,857 units to its accumulated score this Monday.
The gains were led by the ordinary papers of the reinsurer IRB, which rose 9.23%, followed by the similar ones of the food giant BRF (+4.86%) and the state-owned Banco do Brasil (SA:) (+ 4.22%).
The losses in the stock market, meanwhile, were led by the unitary shares of Banco Inter (-5.16%), seconded by the ordinary ones of the medical insurance administrator Qualicorp (-4.55%) and the network of agencies of trips CVC Brazil (-3.05%).
The most traded securities on the day among the 92 that make up the Ibovespa sight market were the preferential ones of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (+3.93%).
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar depreciated 1.41% against the real and ended the first day of the week trading at 4.803 reais for purchase and 4.804 for purchase and sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.
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