At 3:15 pm (Brasília time), this Friday (19th), the commercial dollar was down 1.89% and traded at R$ 5.4640. The Ptax fell 0.71%, to R$ 5.50812.
The currency continues the losses of the last days with the increase of the Selic rate to 2.75% per year by the Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of the Central Bank (BC), the first increase since 20215 to contain inflation amid the coronavirus . In addition, Brazil will receive more than one million doses of the Covax Facility consortium vaccine against coronavirus this Sunday. The country is currently facing the worst moment of the pandemic with an increase in cases and deaths in all states. Attention also to the resignation of the president of Banco do Brasil, André Brandão, shortly after the closing of yesterday's trading session (18). In Europe, the disease immunizer at the University of Oxford and the pharmaceutical company AstraZeneca was released again in France, Germany, Bulgaria, Slovenia and Italy after suspension for analysis of reactions in vaccinated patients.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.