©Reuters. The Sao Paulo stock market remains unstoppable (1.36%), driven by large stocks
Sao Paulo, March 24 (.).- The Sao Paulo stock market chained its sixth consecutive rise by advancing 1.36% this Thursday, with its index, a benchmark for the parquet, standing at 119,052 points at the close of the day, driven by by the big stocks, such as Vale and Petrobras (NYSE:).
The Brazilian parquet thus remained unstoppable and remains at its highest level of the year, while the US dollar maintained its downward trend and reached its lowest value in the country in the last two years on Thursday.
The “green ticket” closed the day with a depreciation of 0.25% against the Brazilian currency, for which it closed the day traded at 4,831 reais for purchase and sale at the commercial exchange rate, its lowest value since March of 2020.
On the São Paulo stock exchange, the ordinary shares of the mining giant Vale and the preferred shares of the state oil company Petrobras were the most traded in the session and closed with increases of 0.54% and 1.15%, respectively.
The biggest gains, however, were led by the digital bank Inter, whose unit titles gained a significant 10.12%.
The ordinary papers of the Magazine Luiza stores, which advanced by 10.0%, and the ordinary papers of the Meliuz technology company, which in turn appreciated by 9.05%, also ended the day in positive territory.
On the opposite side, the ordinary shares of the technology company LocaWeb were the ones that lost the most value today, losing 7.05%, followed by the ordinary shares of the health insurance operator Hapvida (-5.09%) and the PetroRio oil company (-4.50%).
During the day this Thursday, 30,727 million reais (about 5,521 million dollars) were traded on the Sao Paulo stock exchange, the product of 4,279,850 financial operations.
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