© Reuters. The Sao Paulo stock market yields 0.75% and opens the week in the red
Sao Paulo, Jan 10 (.) .- The index, the main benchmark of the Sao Paulo stock market, fell 0.75% this Monday and at the end of the first session of the week stood at 101,945 points, interrupting two sessions consecutive to the rise, according to the consolidated data of the closing.
This Monday, the Brazilian equity market assimilated the negative trend of foreign markets, discouraged by the prospect of a rise in interest rates in the United States.
The São Paulo stock market thus recorded a financial volume of 22,710 million reais on Monday (about 4,002 million dollars) and totaled 4.0 million transactions.
Always in negative territory, the largest Latin American stock market by volume traded moved this Monday between a maximum score of 102,719 integers, obtained at the opening of operations, and a minimum of 101,037 units, with a momentary decrease of 1.63% and that later it was reduced.
After a rise of 1.14% on Friday, the indicator subtracted 774 units from its accumulated score on Monday.
The gains were led by the preferential papers of the Usiminas producer, which advanced 4.77%, followed by the ordinary ones of the Fleury clinical laboratory network (+3.74%) and the Companhia Siderúrgica Nacional -CSN- ( +3.32%).
Losses in the stock market, meanwhile, were led by the unit shares of Banco Inter (-8.57%), seconded by the ordinary shares of the chain of stores and electronic commerce Magazine Luiza (-7.72%) and of the Meliuz digital shopping discount platform (-5.75%).
Already the most traded securities on the trading day were the ordinary ones of the mining company Vale (-1.19%), one of the largest iron producers and exporters in the world.
In the foreign exchange market, the dollar appreciated 0.74% against the real and ended the first session of the week trading at 5,673 reais for purchase and 5,674 for sale at the Brazilian commercial exchange rate.
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