At 2:12 pm (Brasília time) on Thursday (28), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered gains of 1.97% and traded at 30,901 points. The indicator follows the technical movement of adjustments in positions and a strong appreciation of 4.73% in the shares of Netflix Inc, 3.37% in Microsoft Corp, 2.68% in Alphabet and 0.50% in Facebook Inc. In addition, there are expectations facing the news that the world has applied 80 million doses of coronavirus vaccines, although the consequences of the recent growth in cases and deaths are uncertain. The maintenance of US interest rates between 0% and 0.25% is also on the radar, despite the speech by the Federal Reserve (FED) president, Jerome Powell, that “we are very far from a complete recovery". As a limiting factor As the day appreciated, US unemployment claims last week totaled 847,000, a slight weekly drop, but still considered high.
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