Ibovespa falls sharply near closing at B3

At around 5:25 pm (Brasília time), this Monday (11th), the Ibovespa registered a 1.72% drop, quoted at 122,868 points on the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3). Earlier, the indicator reached 122,075 points. The first session of the week was marked by technical movements of profit realization after gains in the last days and breaking historical records. In addition to the 6.42% drop in Copel's shares, 5.68% in Ydulqs and 5.36% in Multiplan. The market also assimilates the growth of coronavirus cases and deaths in Brazil, China and the world, causing stricter social restraint measures to be imposed again, contrary to the expectations of the disease vaccine. Attention also to the US parliamentarians who presented to Congress today the impeachment article of President Donald Trump after the invasion of the House and the Capitol last week. Despite optimism over fiscal stimuli amid a pandemic following Democratic Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on January 20. 

This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.