At the close, at 5:22 pm (Brasília time) on Monday (01), the commercial dollar recorded losses of 0.26% and was traded at R$ 5.444. While the Ptax fell 0.28%, to R$ 5.4608. The currency was on the negative side, influenced by the technical movement of profit-making and the increase in market risk appetite with advances in coronavirus vaccination and hopes for world economic improvement. In Brazil, the presidential elections of the Chamber of Deputies and the Senate have just started and continue to be monitored. The Central Bank (BC) also held today a traditional swap auction to roll up to 16 thousand contracts with maturity in June and October 2021.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.