At 3:16 pm (Brasília time), this Thursday (08), the commercial dollar was down 1.49% and traded at R$ 5.5570. The Ptax fell 0.08%, to R$ 5.5817. The dollar went to the positive side with the greater appetite for risk in the domestic market with the advances in the vaccination negotiations against the coronavirus and technical movements of realization of profits after gains the day before. The federal government is also auctioning this Thursday the concession for the West-East Integration Railway (Fiol 1), on the stretch that goes from Ilhéus to Caetité, in Bahia. The sale of airports guaranteed a collection of R$ 3.302 billion yesterday (07). In addition, the disclosure of the Federal Reserve's FTA (FED), in the eve, showed signs that the monetary authority will remain cautious about the interest of the United States. The official also believes that the country's economy will take "some time" to recover from the current financial and health crisis caused by the coronavirus.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.