Trade dollar closes session with slight drop
Penultimate day of quotes in the week received pressure to approve the extension of Emergency Aid to Brazilians At the close, at 5:31 pm (Brasília time) this Thursday (04), the commercial dollar fell 0.12% and was traded at R$ 5,6600. While Ptax retreated sharply, 2.33%, to R$ 5.6008. The session received pressure from the news that the Senate of Brazil approved, in the first and second rounds, the Proposed Emergency Constitution Amendment (PEC), which makes it possible to extend Emergency Aid and limit the increase in Brazilian public spending to face the pandemic. In addition, the market continues to assimilate that the Brazilian economy has already recovered 89.1% of the losses accumulated by the pandemic, after a record retraction data of 4.1% of the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) in 2020 released yesterday (03). In the United States, the president of the Federal Reserve (FED, central bank of the USA), Jerome Powell, said today that the monetary policy of the country remains "appropriate for the moment". Stressing that US interest rates will not increase until “macroeconomic conditions are satisfied”, despite the growth in the request for unemployment benefits. Attention also to the United States Senate vote on the $ 1.9 trillion aid package this afternoon and relaxation of restrictive social measures amid vaccination against the coronavirus.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.