At 12:35 pm (Brasília time), this Thursday (25th), the Ibovespa on the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) registered an increase of 0.43% and was quoted at 116,160 points. The indicator follows the upward bias of the past few days, progress in the privatization proposals of Correios do Brasil and Eletrobras. In addition to Petrobras, which reached a record profit of R $ 59.9 billion in the fourth quarter of last year. The General Market Price Index (IGP-M) of Brazil, considered as rent inflation, stood at 2.53% in February, slightly easing the 2.58% rise in January. In the international scenario, investors follow the signs of the effectiveness of the measures of social restraint together with the advances in the vaccination of the coronavirus and research of immunizers for the new strains of the disease. The United States House of Representatives will begin voting on the $ 1.9 trillion economic stimulus package this Friday, the 26th.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.