At 3:12 pm (Brasília time) on Wednesday (28), the commercial dollar registered a fall of 1.30%, traded at R$ 5.3890. The Ptax fell 0.77%, to R$ 5.4005. The currency continued the losses of the past few days with the market's greatest appetite for international risk in the face of signs of control of the coronavirus, despite the worsening of the disease in India. The UK Government Public Health Agency announced today that the disease vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford / AstraZeneca can cut the transmission of the virus in half. In addition, the market remains optimistic about the maintenance of the United States' basic interest rate between 0% and 0.25%. Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) members of the Federal Reserve (FED) hold their new monetary policy meeting today and tomorrow (29). In Brazil, the General Register of Employed and Unemployed (Caged) reported that the country opened 184,140 formal jobs in March, with emphasis on the services sector. Consumer confidence jumped 4.3 points in April to 72.5 points, recovering 44% from the fall in March, despite attention to the fiscal scenario and the installation of the coronavirus Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI).
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.