At the close, at 5:10 pm (Brasília time) on Tuesday (05), the commercial dollar recorded losses of 0.11% and was traded at R$ 5.2630. While the Ptax jumped 3.18%, to R$ 5.3269. The currency was on the negative side at the end of the session with the monitoring of Brazil's fiscal scenario and technical movements in realizing profits after gains in the last days and earlier in the day. The Central Bank (BC) of Brazil also held today an auction of up to 16 thousand traditional swap contracts for rolling over due in May and September 2021. In addition, the market's risk appetite increased with additional cuts in the Organization's offer of the Petroleum Exporting Countries and Allies (OPEC +) and second round of voting by the Senate in the United States. The announcement of the £ 4.6 billion economic stimulus for companies affected by the coronavirus and new lockdown UK tax has also had repercussions. Despite the imposition of stricter restrictive measures in other countries in Europe, Asia and the United States to contain the new growth of infections of the disease.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.