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© Reuters. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange remains in the red, pushed by Petrobras titles
Sao Paulo, Jan 27 (.).- The reference index of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, the , fell this Friday by 1.63%, to 112,316 points, chaining two consecutive sessions down, according to the consolidated data of the closing .
During the week, the Ibovespa accumulated a positive variation of 0.24%.
The shares of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) dragged the floor to its second fall with a market that did not fully assimilate the appointment of Senator Jean Paul Prates, indicated by President Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, as the new head of the company.
Thus, the ordinary papers of the Vale mining company (-2.73%), one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of iron, ended the trading day as the most traded on the day, followed by the preferential ones of Petrobras (-2, twenty-one %).
The largest Latin American stock market by traded volume concluded the session with more than 3.3 million transactions and operations for a value of 21,963 million reais (about 4,297 million dollars).
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar stopped its falls and appreciated this Friday by 0.72% against the real, to end the last day of the week quoted at 5,110 reais for purchase and 5,111 for sale in the exchange rate commercial.
In the five sessions of the week, the US currency devalued 1.84% with respect to the Brazilian denomination.
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