At the close, at 5:43 pm (Brasília time) on Monday (12), the commercial dollar registered a 0.78% increase and was traded at R$ 5.7210. The Ptax rose 0.24%, to R$ 5.6582. The market started looking for financial security during most of the day with an eye on the Central Bank's (BC) Focus bulletin, which revised its forecast for high inflation in Brazil from 2021 from 4.81% to 4.85%. In addition to the internal political and economic uncertainties with the opening of the Parliamentary Commission of Inquiry (CPI) to investigate the confrontation of the coronavirus by the federal government, still in the midst of the continuous spread of the disease in the country and in the world. Despite the news that European countries are reopening their economic activities after a period of worsening of the coronavirus pandemic and the imposition of social isolation. In the last 24 hours, the country vaccinated the new record of 4.6 million personnel against the disease.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.