At 12:33 pm (Brasília time), this Friday (9th), the Ibovespa on the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) registered a fall of 0.31% and was quoted at 118,143 points. The last session of the week went to the negative side with the influence of technical movements for profit realization, a 3.56% devaluation in Via Varejo shares and news that Brazil's official inflation reached the highest level for the month since March. 2015. According to the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE), it reported earlier today that the rate was 0.93% in the third month of 2021 and in 12 months it accumulated an increase of 6.10%, staying for the first time in the year above the upper limit of the 3.75% inflation target. In addition, the market remains concerned about internal political and economic uncertainties and uncertainties still in the midst of the coronavirus pandemic and its recent worsening in Brazil and in the world, despite expectations of a global economic recovery soon. The question of opening COVID-19's Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to face the disease, determined by the Minister of the Supreme Federal Court (STF), Luís Roberto Barroso, also weighs in on the day.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.