At 2:00 pm (Brasília time) on Tuesday (16), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered gains of 0.21% and traded at 31,523 points. After the shutdown of the United States stock exchanges the day before for the national holiday of Presidents Day, the market motivates the index to the positive side with hopes of improvement in the country's fiscal health with the advance of vaccination of the coronavirus. In addition, there is a strong expectation of approval of the $ 1.9 trillion economic stimulus package that continues to be discussed by the US Congress. The appreciation in WTI oil and attack on the US military air base in Iraq also has repercussions
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