At 5:43 pm (Brasília time), this Tuesday (19), the Ibovespa on the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) registered a slight fall of 0.42% and was quoted at 120,734 points. The market reflected a 5.08% devaluation in CSN's shares, 5.05% in SID Naciona and 8.50% in BMI. In addition to the technical movement of realization of profits after gains the day before and waiting for the first monetary policy meeting of 2021 of the Monetary Policy Committee (Copom) of the Central Bank (BC) of Brazil. The market is also concerned with the growth of cases and deaths caused by the coronavirus in the world, contrary to expectations with vaccination. Germany announced today that it will extend the lockdown in the country until February and the United States reached the mark of 400 thousand deaths by the disease.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.