At the close, at 6:00 pm (Brasília time) on Monday (05), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered gains of 1.13%, traded at 33,527 points. The indicator followed the news that the United States reached the record mark of 4 million people vaccinated against the coronavirus in the period of 24 hours. The reopening of economic activities in Europe after a long period of restrictions to reduce the spread of the coronavirus also had repercussions. In addition, the US Department of Labor reported that 916,000 formal job vacancies were created in March, the biggest increase since August, which caused the unemployment rate to drop to 6.0%.
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