At 2:00 pm (Brasília time) on Monday (22), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered gains of 0.19% and traded 32,687 points. The indicator was motivated by the recovery of shares in the technology sector, with highlight to the 5.38% increase in Tesla Inc. shares. In addition, the market follows the information that the coronavirus vaccine developed by the University of Oxford and pharmaceutical AstraZeneca is 79% effective in preventing symptomatic cases and does not increase the risk of blood clots. The immunizer has also been shown to be 100% effective against severe cases of the disease and 80% in people over 85 years of age. The news increases the optimism of the international market in the global economic recovery, despite the continuation of fears about the worsening of cases, hospitalizations and deaths by COVID-19 in the continent. Germany must expand its security measures today. lockdown to contain the third wave of cases.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.