The Sao Paulo stock market yields 0.15% and interrupts positive sequence By EFE

Sao Paulo, Jan 13 (.).- The index, the main reference of the Sao Paulo stock market, fell slightly this Thursday by 0.15% and at the end of the session stood at 105,529 points, interrupting 2 consecutive days on the rise , according to the consolidated closing data.

This Thursday, the Brazilian stock market followed the negative trend of foreign markets, discouraged by the prospect of rising interest rates in the United States, but with less intensity that allowed it to reduce losses in the final stretch of operations.

The São Paulo trading floor thus recorded this Thursday a financial volume of 27,739 million reais (about 5,018 million dollars) and totaled 3.75 million transactions.

With some oscillations, the largest Latin American stock market by traded volume moved this Thursday between a maximum score of 106,250 integers, when it rose 0.53%, and a minimum of 104,974 units, with a momentary decrease of 0.67%. and a percentage that was later reduced.

After a rise of 1.84% on Wednesday, the indicator subtracted 156 units from its accumulated score this Thursday.

Gains were led by chicken meat exporter Marfrig common paper, which advanced 5.18%, followed by oil company PetroRio (+3.09%) and food giant Minerva (+3). .09%).

The losses in the stock market, meanwhile, were led by the unitary shares of Banco Inter (-9.87%), seconded by the ordinary ones of the technology company Locaweb (-8.38%) and the cosmetics manufacturer Natura (-5.09%).

Already the most traded titles on the trading day were the preferential ones of the state oil company Petrobras (NYSE:) (+2.02%).

In the foreign exchange market, the dollar depreciated 0.14% against the real and ended the session trading at 5.527 reais for both purchase and sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.