At 12:29 pm (Brasília time), this Wednesday (28th), the Ibovespa on the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) registered gains of 0.94% and was quoted at 120,511 points. The indicator started to adjust its positions in this session after losses the day before and market expectations with the maintenance of the basic interest rate in the United States between 0% and 0.25%. Members of the Federal Reserve (FED) Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) close the meeting on American monetary policy today. In addition, US President Joe Biden made his first announcement in the country's Congress, anticipating the release of vaccines against the US coronavirus to India and other nations soon. The jump of more than 2% in WTI oil traded on the New York Stock Exchange was also felt. In Brazil, consumer confidence jumped 4.3 points in April, to 72.5 points, recovering 44% of the fall in March, according to data from Fundação Getulio Vargas. Despite the attention to the fiscal scenario amid the lack of immunizations against COVID-19 in some Brazilian states and installation of the Coronavirus Parliamentary Inquiry Commission (CPI) in the Senate.
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