At the close, at 6:00 pm (Brasília time) on Thursday (18), the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded losses of 0.46%, traded at 32,862 points, renewing maximums. The penultimate session of the week went to the negative side with the influence of technical profit-making movements after gains in the last days and the appreciation of US Treasury bonds. The market also follows the increase in cases and deaths caused by the coronavirus in the world and the suspension of vaccination against the disease of Oxford / AstraZeneca in France, Spain, Germany, Italy and in six other countries. In addition to the discovery of new variants of the disease in California, in the United States. Attention also to the future of US inflation, which may rise to offset the population aid package and the Federal Reserve's Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision to maintain the country's basic interest rate between 0% and 0.25% per year.
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