At the close, at 6:00 pm (Brasília time) on Tuesday (23), the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded losses of 0.94%, traded at 32,423 points. EDF President Jerome Powell and United States Treasury Secretary Janet Yellen spoke today and signaled a possible tax hike in the country to offset the $ 1.9 trillion package of aid to the population in tackling the pandemic of the United States. coronavirus. In addition to apprehensions with the return of social containment measures in the world after growth in cases, deaths and hospitalizations due to coronavirus, contrary to expectations with anti-coronavirus vaccination, mainly in Brazil and in European countries. Technical profit-making and devaluation movements on Asian stock exchanges with the information that the US, European Union (EU), United Kingdom and Canada adopted sanctions against Chinese officials for human rights abuses also weighed in on the day
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