At 12:29 pm (Brasília time), this Monday (18th), the Ibovespa on the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) registered an expressive increase of 1.77% and was quoted at 122,477 points. The market starts the week optimistic after the approval of the National Health Surveillance Agency (Anvisa) for the emergency use of coronavirus vaccines developed by the University of Oxford in partnership with AstraZeneca and the Butantan Institute in partnership with Sinovac. The state of São Paulo started the immunization plan yesterday (17) shortly after approval; the Ministry of Health of Brazil should start vaccination from 5 pm on Monday. Thus, the shares of airlines, among others, registered appreciation. With highlights for Azul, which jumped 4.84% and WEG, + 5.23%. The Focus bulletin of the Central Bank (BC) also today pointed to its new estimate for Brazil's Gross Domestic Product (GDP), which went from an increase of 3.41% last week to + 3.45% in 2021. In the United States United, today is the national holiday of Martin Luther King Jr. Day and the exchanges do not carry out negotiations, but are normalized tomorrow (19).
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.