At the close, at 6:00 pm (Brasília time) on Thursday (22), the Dow Jones Industrial Average recorded losses of 0.94%, traded at 33,817 points. The session was influenced by the news that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, plans to almost double the capital gains tax, despite his promise to reduce the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 at the Leaders' Summit on Climate. In addition to the recent worsening of the coronavirus pandemic in Asia, contradicting expectations of disease control with mass vaccination and the resumption of the economy. India recorded a new daily record of 315,000 cases of contamination of the disease.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.