The Sao Paulo stock market falls 0.52% and opens the week with losses

Sao Paulo, Jan 17 (EFE) .- The index, the main reference of the Sao Paulo stock market, fell 0.52% this Monday and at the end of the session stood at 106,373 points, thus ending the first day of the week in the red, according to the consolidated closing data.

This Monday, without the reference of the external scenario due to the holiday in the United States, the Brazilian stock market operated with few businesses and remained in negative territory, although with moderate losses that did not reach 0.8%.

The São Paulo trading floor recorded this Monday a financial volume of 15,360 million reais (about 2,279 million dollars) -a figure below the daily average as a reflection of the taking of profits due to the expiration on shares in the middle of the month- and totaled a little more than 3.2 million transactions.

Always in negative territory, the largest Latin American stock market by traded volume moved this Monday between a maximum score of 106,927 integers, obtained at the opening of operations, and a minimum of 106,096 units, with a momentary decrease of 0.77%.

After a rise of 1.33% on Friday, the indicator subtracted 553 units from its accumulated score this Monday.

The gains were led by the ordinary papers of the electronic payment and card manager Cielo, which advanced 4.95%, followed by the similar ones of the medical insurance marketer Qualicorp (2.76%) and the mobile phone operator TIM Brazil (2.45%).

The losses in the stock market, meanwhile, were led by the preferred shares of the petrochemical company Braskem (-6.73%), followed by the unitary shares of the Iguatemí shopping center network (-3.73%) and those of the preferential rate of the shoe giant Alpargatas (-3.49%).

The most traded securities on the trading day were the preferential ones of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (0.16%).

In the foreign exchange market, the dollar appreciated 0.24% against the real and ended the opening day of the week trading at 5.525 reais for purchase and 5.526 reais for sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.