At 3:16 pm (Brasília time), on Monday (22), the commercial dollar was up 1.34% and was trading at R$ 5.4570. While the Ptax advanced 2.08%, to R$ 5.5044. The session continues to follow the information that President Jair Bolsonaro appointed General Joaquim Silva e Luna, current director of Itaipu Binacional, to be the president of Petrobras, increasing uncertainties about interference in the company and its pricing policies. In addition, the market continues to assimilate Brazil's fiscal scenario and continuity of emergency aid to the coronavirus pandemic. The Central Bank (BC) today released its new estimate of the Broad Consumer Price Index (IPCA) for 2021 at 3.82%, above the central target of 3.75% for the year. In the United States, the mark of 500,000 deaths from coronavirus can be reached in the next few hours amid vaccination paralysis in some states due to the extreme cold and lack of approval of the economic stimulus package.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.