At 2:00 pm (Brasília time) on Thursday (01), the Dow Jones Industrial Average registered an increase of 0.45% and was traded 33,130 points. The market assimilates US President Joe Biden's $ 2.3 trillion plan to rebuild the country's infrastructure, including modernizing 20,000 miles of highways, repairing 10,000 bridges and installing 500,000 vehicle charging stations. electrical. In addition to the 4.53% jump in shares of Micron Technology and advances in vaccination against coronavirus in the USA, despite a new wave of spread of the disease in countries in Europe and South America. In a negative aspect, 719 thousand Americans applied for unemployment benefits last week, compared to 658,000 in the previous week and an expectation of 680,000.
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