At 3:15 pm (Brasília time), this Thursday (18th), the commercial dollar was down 0.82% and traded at R$ 5.5400. The Ptax rose significantly 1.95%, to R$ 5.5474. The exchange rate shifted to the negative side with interference from the Central Bank (BC) of Brazil after starting the day with a high, reflecting the increase in the Selic rate to 2.75% per year by the Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of the BC. The decision was above the expectation of a 0.5 percentage point increase and should help contain the high inflation in the country that continues to face the coronavirus pandemic. There is also the monitoring of the limits of public cats in combating the new growth of deaths and cases caused by the coronavirus in the country. In the United States, the Federal Open Market Committee (Fomc, in English) of the Federal Reserve (FED, United States central bank) decided to keep the country's basic interest rate between 0% and 0.25%, in line with market expectations.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.