© Reuters. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange begins April with a decrease of 0.37%
Sao Paulo, Apr 3 (.).- The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (B3) fell 0.37% this Monday and its reference index, the , stood at 101,506 points in the first session of April, in its second consecutive decrease, according to the consolidated data of the closing.
On the first trading day of the week, despite the rise in the shares of the oil sector with the rise in international prices, the stock market ended in red numbers due to the impact that a production cut could have on inflation.
The United States admitted that the countries of the OPEC+ alliance gave advance notice of their plans to reduce the supply of crude oil, an unexpected announcement that occurred on Sunday and that surprised the markets today, causing an increase in oil prices.
Thus, the preferred shares of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (+4.46%) ended the session as the most traded in the B3, followed by the common shares of the mining company Vale (+0.02%), one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of iron.
With a little more than 4.27 million operations, the largest Latin American parquet by number of businesses totaled a volume of 21,608 million reais (about 4,321 million dollars).
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar appreciated a meager 0.03% against the real, which ended on the first trading day of the week and month practically stable and quoted at the commercial exchange rate at 5.070 reals for both purchase and for sale.