At the close, at 5:32 pm (Brasília time) on Tuesday (16), the commercial dollar recorded losses of 0.37% and was traded at R$ 5.6170. The Ptax fell 0.79% to R$ 5.5851. The second session of the week received pressure from technical movements to realize profits after gains in the last days and a traditional swap auction to roll up to 16 thousand contracts with maturity in December 2021 and April 2022 held today by the Central Bank (BC). The market also follows the market expectation of the Federal Reserve (FED) monetary policy meeting in the United States and of the Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) in Brazil, which is expected to increase the Selic rate for the first time in seven years. Despite the uncertainties facing the fourth exchange of the Minister of Health in the midst of the worst moment of the coronavirus pandemic in Brazilian territory. In addition, the Brazilian economy created 260,353 formal jobs in January this year, the best result for January of the historical series, which started in 1992.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.