©Reuters. The Sao Paulo Stock Exchange rose more than 2.17% and closed the week with gains
Sao Paulo, Sep 9 (EFE) .- The index, the main reference of the Sao Paulo Stock Exchange, rose 2.17% this Friday, to 112,300 points, and in its second consecutive session on the rise, it ended the week with gains, according to the consolidated closing data.
In the five sessions of the week, the indicator accumulated a positive variation of 1.29%
The Brazilian stock market saw this Friday how the good performance of the titles of the consumer sector and of companies linked to raw materials drove a significant rise in the stock market.
The São Paulo parquet thus recorded a financial volume of 24,543 million reais (about 4,768 million dollars) and totaled more than 3.6 million transactions.
Always in the green, the largest Latin American stock market by traded volume moved between a minimum score of 109,922 integers, obtained at the opening of operations, and a maximum of 112,539 units, when it climbed 2.38%.
After a slight rise of 0.14% on Thursday, the indicator added another 2,384 units to its accumulated score this Friday.
The gains on a favorable day for the airline sector were led by the common shares of the chain of stores and electronic commerce Lojas Americanas, which rose 9.31%, seconded by those of the same type of the steel company CSN (8.87%) and the Vale mining company (7.81%).
Those titles of Vale, one of the world’s largest producers and exporters of iron, were also the most traded.
Already the preferential airlines Gol (7.58%) and Azul (7.31%) were also among the five that advanced the most on the day.
On the other hand, the losses in the stock market, on a negative day for the food sector, were led by the ordinary papers of the food giant BRF (-2.49%), followed by those of the Minerva meat company (-1 .52%) and the unitary ones of the Shopping Iguatemi shopping center network (-1.14%).
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar depreciated 1.13% against the real and ended the last trading day of the week trading at 5.146 reais for purchase and 5.147 for sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.
In the five sessions of the week, the US currency depreciated 0.73% against the US denomination.