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©Reuters. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange falls 2.04% and loses the gains of the week
Sao Paulo, Aug 19 (EFE) .- The index, the main reference of the Sao Paulo stock market, fell 2.04% this Friday, to 111,496 points, and thus interrupted a streak of five consecutive sessions on the rise and also lost weekly earnings, according to consolidated closing data.
In the five sessions of the week, the indicator accumulated a negative variation of 1.12%
The Brazilian stock market was infected by the pessimism in the United States with the fear of investors due to the impact of the rise in interest rates in the North American country and the Ibovespa also felt this Friday the fall in the papers of the oil sector, from heavy weight in the bag.
The São Paulo parquet thus recorded a financial volume of 28,260 million reais (about 5,469 million dollars) and totaled four million transactions.
Always in negative territory, the largest Latin American stock market by traded volume moved between a maximum score of 113,807 integers, obtained at the opening of operations, and a minimum of 111,146 units, when it fell 2.34%.
After a slight rise of 0.09% on Thursday, the indicator subtracted 2,316 units from its accumulated score this Friday.
The gains of the day were led by the ordinary shares of the meat company Minerva, which rose 2.55%, seconded by those of the same type of the reinsurer IRB (1.85%) and the pharmaceutical company Hypera (1.70%). ).
On the other hand, the losses in the stock market, on a negative day for the airline sector, were led by the ordinary papers of the technology and computer company Locaweb (-5.28%), followed by the preferential papers of the Azul airlines ( -7.63%) and Goal (-7.30%).
The most traded titles on the day were the preferential ones of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (-5.06%).
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar depreciated a scant 0.08% against the real and ended the last trading day of the week trading at 5.166 reais for purchase and 5.167 for sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.
In the five sessions of the week, the US currency appreciated by 1.87% against the US denomination.
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