At 2:00 pm (Brasília time) on Friday (09), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered gains of 0.24%, traded at 33,583 points. The index follows the upward movement of the past two days and the speech of the Federal Reserve (FED) president, Jerome Powell, the day before, signaling that the authority does not intend to reduce the economic stimulus of the United States in the face of the confrontation of the coronavirus, despite advances in vaccination against the disease. In addition to the gains in the main shares of companies in the technology sector, mainly in Apple Inc, Tesla and Microsoft Corporation. Despite this, yesterday (08), the number of people who filed for unemployment benefits in the USA rose 16 thousand in the week ended on April 3, to 744 thousand requests, against the expectation of 694 thousand requests.
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