At the close, at 5:32 pm (Brasília time) on Wednesday (31), the commercial dollar registered a decrease of 2.17% and was traded at R$ 5.6380. The Ptax fell 1.16% to R$ 5.6973. The session was strongly pressured by internal political and fiscal expectations, despite continuing uncertainty about the new wave of coronavirus spread in Brazil. The federal government also announced today that it will vote to pay Emergency Aid as of April 1. Despite the fact that the unemployment rate in Brazil reached 14.2% in the quarter ended in January, the highest rate ever recorded for the period since the beginning of the survey by the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), in 2012.
Attention also to the advances in the development of vaccines against the coronavirus amid the recent growth of cases in the world. Pfizer Inc reported today that its coronavirus vaccine, developed in partnership with BioNTech, has reached 100% effectiveness in children aged 12 to 15 years after an advanced clinical trial.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.