At the close, at 6:00 pm (Brasília time) on Wednesday (28), the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded losses of 0.52%, traded at 33,806 points. The session was marked by the negative movement the day before and market apprehension around the worsening of the coronavirus pandemic in India, despite advances in global vaccination. The UK Government Public Health Agency also pointed out today that the disease vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford / AstraZeneca can cut the transmission of the virus in half. On a positive note to the indicator, members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) of the Federal Reserve (FED) decided to keep the United States basic interest rate unchanged, between 0% and 0.25%, as expected .
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