© Reuters. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange returns to the red numbers with a decrease of 0.88%
Sao Paulo, Apr 5 (.).- The index, the main one of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange (B3), fell 0.88% this Wednesday and, again in the red, fell to 100,977 points, according to data consolidated statements disclosed at the close of the session.
The Brazilian stock market operated amid global fears for the US economy and the possibility of an increase in the tax burden in Brazil, which kept Ibovespa out of negative territory.
The largest Latin American parquet by turnover ended the session with 3.37 million operations and a total of 23,460 million reais (about 4,647 million dollars).
Thus, the preferential titles of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (+0.33%) were the most traded on this B3 day, followed by the ordinary ones of the mining company Vale (-1.47%), one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of iron.
In the commercial exchange rate, the main benchmark in the foreign exchange market in Brazil, the dollar depreciated 0.66% against the real, which ended the day at 5.048 reais for both buying and selling.