At the close, at 17 h 36 (Brasília time) this Monday (29), the commercial dollar registered a 0.40% increase and was traded at R$ 5.7660. The Ptax jumped 1.55% to R$ 5.7925.
The session was marked by increased market demand for financial security and assimilation of the resignation of the Minister of Foreign Affairs of Brazil and a request for departure from the Minister of Defense. In addition to the worsening of the coronavirus pandemic in the country, which surpassed the mark of 302 thousand deaths the day before. The Central Bank (BC) inflation forecast was 4.81% this year, the twelfth increase in expectations, despite having held today an auction of 16 thousand traditional swap contracts for rollover with maturity in December 2021 and April 2022. Internationally, attention is focused on the explosion of the Balongan oil refinery in West Java, Indonesia, and billionaire loss after a six-day stranding of the Ever Given mega-carrier on the Suez Canal in Egypt.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.