At 3:16 pm (Brasília time), this Wednesday (27th), the commercial dollar rose 1.18% and was traded at R$ 5.3870. While Ptax fell 0.08%, to R$ 5.3824. The session follows the internal sanitary and fiscal uncertainties amid elections for the presidencies of the Chamber and the Senate. Fears about public spending have increased with signs of extension of emergency aid to the population affected by the coronavirus in Brazil. The Central Bank (BC) also reported today that foreign direct investments in the country's economy fell 50.6% in the annual comparison of 2020 with 2019, the lowest in 11 years. Despite this, the entity informed that it will start rolling over 234,996 traditional currency swap contracts with maturity on March 1, in the total amount of US$ 11.8 billion. The world surpassed yesterday (26) the mark of 100 million cases of coronavirus and the British Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, said that the vaccination of the disease is slower than expected. It also warns of the decision of the first US monetary policy meeting of 2021 that will be released today by the Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc) of the Federal Reserve (FED).
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.