At 14h 04 (Brasília time) on Friday (05), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered gains of 0.32% and was trading at 31,154 points. The session follows information that the United States created 49,000 jobs in January, considered modest and slightly below the expected 50,000 jobs, according to official data released earlier by the country's Department of Labor. The figure also cheered the market waiting for the injection of Joe Biden's $ 1.9 trillion government package to stimulate the US economy still amid the uncertainty of the coronavirus pandemic. Aid package discussions are advancing in the country's Senate and the US House of Representatives will vote and a budget plan that allows legislation to be passed in the coming weeks.
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