At 2:00 pm (Brasília time) on Friday (12), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered gains of 0.43% and traded 32,625 points. The indicator positively reflects the news that the President of the United States, Joe Biden, has sanctioned the $ 1.9 trillion package in economic stimuli to alleviate the impacts of the coronavirus pandemic. The measure includes the payment of US$ 1,400 for most of the American population, US$ 300 of weekly unemployment benefits for 9.5 million people and US$ 350 billion in aid to indebted states. In addition, the market remains optimistic about the economic recovery in the country and the world with advances in vaccination against coronavirus and research on immunizing agents and other drugs.
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