At 3:19 pm (Brasília time), this Tuesday (23), the commercial dollar was down 0.53% and traded at R$ 5.4890. The Ptax fell 0.58%, to R$ 5.4951. The currency loses strength this afternoon with technical moves to realize profits and increase the market's risk appetite waiting for the speech of the Fed's President, Jerome Powell, and the Secretary of the Treasury of the United States, Janet Yellen, on bond yields . In the domestic scenario, the Central Bank (BC) today holds a traditional swap auction (operation equivalent to the sale of dollars in the futures market) to roll up to 16 thousand contracts with maturity in December 2021 and April 2022, highlights Reuters . The BC Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) also released the ATA of its last monetary policy meeting, signaling that it may raise the Selic rate by 0.75 point, to 3.5% per year, in May, in order to control inflation amid the coronavirus pandemic. Despite this, there are fears about the significant increase in the number of cases, deaths and hospitalizations due to the disease in Brazil and worldwide. The state of São Paulo recorded a record 1,021 deaths caused by the virus in the last 24 hours.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.