At the close, at 5:32 pm (Brasília time), this Wednesday (28th), the commercial dollar fell 1.85% and was traded at R$ 5.3590. The Ptax fell 0.77%, to R$ 5.4005. The day was marked by the Federal Reserve's (FED) Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) decision to keep the United States interest rate unchanged, between 0% and 0.25%, as the market expected. In addition, investors are more appetite for international risk with the signs of control of the coronavirus pandemic in the world, despite the worsening of the disease in India. The UK Government Public Health Agency announced today that the disease vaccine developed by Pfizer-BioNTech or Oxford / AstraZeneca can halve virus transmission In Brazil, consumer confidence jumped 4.3 points in April, to 72.5 points, recovering 44% of its fall in March. Despite the attention to the fiscal scenario, tensions established in the political scenario and installation of the Coronavirus Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI).
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.