Around 5:40 pm (Brasília time), this Friday (11th), the WTI spot contract retreated 0.33% and was traded at US$ 52.07 / barrel on the New York Stock Exchange. The first session of the week received pressure from uncertainties about the economic consequences of the new growth of cases and deaths from coronavirus and restrictive measures that contradicted expectations about vaccines. In addition, the technical movement of realizing profits after gains in the last days, renewing maximums, also had repercussions. The market also follows the beginning of the possible impeachment process of the President of the United States, Donald Trump. Despite the optimism about Joe Biden's presidential inauguration on January 20 for tax advances to be made.
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