©Reuters. The Sao Paulo stock market overcomes external pressure and rises 0.28%
Sao Paulo, Jan 18 (.).- The index, the main reference of the Sao Paulo stock market, advanced 0.28% this Tuesday and after overcoming the pressure of external markets, it stood at the end of the session at 106,667 points, according to the consolidated closing data.
This Tuesday, with the external scenario in negative terrain, the Brazilian stock market operated encouraged by the performance of the leading papers, such as those of the oil, steel, mining and banking sectors, the ones with the greatest weight in the stock market.
The São Paulo trading floor thus registered this Tuesday a financial volume of 25,498 million reais (about 4,586 million dollars) and totaled 4.35 million transactions.
With some oscillations, the largest Latin American stock market by traded volume moved this Tuesday between a minimum score of 105,786 integers, when it fell 0.55%, and a maximum of 107,012 units, with a momentary rise of 0.60%. .
After a drop of 0.52% on Monday, the indicator added 293 units to its accumulated score this Tuesday.
The gains were led by the ordinary papers of the oil company PetroRio, which advanced 4.82%, followed by the similar ones of the network of universities and colleges Cogna (+3.69%) and the preferred ones of the steel company Gerdau (+3 .40%).
The losses in the stock market, meanwhile, were led by the ordinary shares of the technology company Locaweb (-10.61%), seconded by the unitary shares of Banco Inter (-10.43%) and the preferred shares of the giant footwear Espadrilles (-7.88%).
Already the most traded securities on the trading day were the preferential ones of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (+0.44%).
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar appreciated 0.61% against the real and ended the day trading at 5.559 reais for both purchase and sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.
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