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SÃO PAULO – Ibovespa Futuro opens in a fall this Tuesday (8) after the international one amid the increase in the number of new cases of coronavirus worldwide.
Here, investors continue to follow the news about the tax. Late yesterday afternoon both the Ministry of Economy and the rapporteur for the Proposal for the Amendment to the Constitution (PEC) of Emergency, Márcio Bittar (MDB-AC), denied the information released yesterday by Radio Broadcasting that the PEC I would put expenses off the roof. expenses, news that affected assets in the final section of the trading day.
Outside, more than 14.8 million cases of Covid-19 have been confirmed in the United States and the daily rate of new infections is at an all-time high. Due to this second wave, states like New York are reinforcing their social isolation measures and may even once again ban face-to-face meals in closed restaurants.
Meanwhile, the UK today launched its vaccination campaign using the prophylaxis developed by Pfizer and BioNTech.
Investors are still waiting for an agreement between Republicans and Democrats in the United States Congress for a stimulus package of $ 908 billion against the economic impacts of the pandemic. Despite the difficulty in approving the proposal, the stakes are increasing that an agreement will be reached on the issue before the end of the year.
At 09:10 AM (Brasilia time), the December futures index fell 0.4%, to 113,295 points.
The future dollar maturing in January 2021 registered an increase of 0.41%, to R $ 5,121.
In the future interest market, the ID of January 2022 falls two basis points to 3.05%, the ID of January 2023 falls one basis point to 4.46%, the ID of January 2025 falls three basis points in 6.11% and the DI of January 2027 registered a negative variation of two basis points at 6.94%.
Among the indicators, the Expanded National Consumer Price Index (IPCA) rose 0.89% in November compared to October, the Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) showed. This is the highest one-month result in November since 2015, when the indicator was 1.01%.
The expectation was a 0.78% increase on the monthly basis, according to a median estimate in Bloomberg research, versus 0.86% in the previous reading.
In Europe, the market is following efforts to pass a new trade deal between the UK and the European Union after Brexit.
The UK left the European bloc in January 2020 and the current trade deal will end on December 31. British Prime Minister Boris Johnson will travel to Brussels this week, where he will meet in person with the President of the European Commission, Ursula von der Leyen. The two made two phone calls recently and have been urging their negotiating teams to seek a result.
On Monday (7), von der Leyen tweeted: “The conditions for an agreement are not present due to the continuing differences on critical issues. We ask our main negotiators to prepare a review of the main differences to be discussed in person in the coming days. “
For months, the two have been divided on three main issues: fisheries, competition rules and governance of the potential deal. On Monday morning, the European Union negotiator, Michel Barnier, denied that there were any concessions on the issue of fishing, as some media had stated.
Vaccination in Brazil
Immunization against covid began on Tuesday in the United Kingdom, from the product developed in partnership between Pfizer and BioNTech, approved in the country. The initial focus is on people over the age of 80, healthcare workers on the front lines of care, and caregivers.
On Monday night, the Brazilian Ministry of Health reported that it is negotiating the purchase of 70 million doses of the same vaccine. In a statement, the government says the terms “are already well advanced” and that an agreement will be announced earlier this week.
“The Brazilian government and Pfizer are advancing their plans to purchase 70 million doses of the Pfizer and Biontech vaccine against Covid-19, to be provided in 2021. The terms are well advanced and should end soon this week with the signing of the memorandum. of intentions, ”says the Ministry of Health. As the vaccine is given in two doses, the amount announced would be enough to immunize about 35 million people.
This Tuesday, the folder holds a meeting with governors, in which new information about the purchase of vaccines can be released.
The choice of the Pfizer and BioNTech vaccine can bring logistical difficulties, since the product must be stored at temperatures of -70 ° C. At the beginning of December, the Ministry of Health had stated that the vaccines included in the National Immunization Plan must have a storage temperature between 2 ° C and 8 ° C.
Until the announcement, the Brazilian government had been concentrating efforts mainly on the product developed by the partnership between AstraZeneca and the University of Oxford, in addition to 40 million doses of the vaccine developed by the Covax Facility consortium.
AstraZeneca and Oxford University’s vaccine research is the subject of the matter. According to the analysis of the test data of phase 3 released by the company itself, the product has an average efficiency of 70%, but this level rises to around 90% in one type of application, in which average is used dose and then a full dose.
Following the official announcement, the company could not explain why the use of the half dose led to a superior result, and admitted that the use of this method was caused by an error. Even so, the results were incorporated into the analysis. Then US officials with access to the test data revealed that half the dose had been applied only to younger patients. Due to these problems, approval of the vaccine can be prolonged.
The government also announced that it released R $ 59.4 million for the purchase of refrigeration equipment to store vaccines.
The announcement came shortly after the governor of São Paulo, João Doria (PSDB) announced on January 25 the start of vaccination among priority groups: health professionals, people over 60 years of age and vulnerable groups, such as indigenous people. and quilombolas. In total, the expectation is to immunize 9 million people at this stage.
Doria plans to use CoronaVac in the state, a vaccine developed by the Chinese pharmaceutical company Sinovac, whose effectiveness study will be published next week. After that, registration requests will be made for the emergency application and finally, the governor said. The Butantan Institute has tested the vaccine in Brazil and will be able to produce it locally with imported supplies.
In a note, Anvisa noted that there are still many steps to go before Coronavac’s launch, and that it has not received any studies related to phase 3 of clinical trials.
Tax reform and succession in the Chamber
On Monday, the day after the STF’s decision that the re-election of the presidents of the Chambers of Congress in the same legislature is unconstitutional, the current occupant of the position in the Chamber, Rodrigo Maia (DEM-RJ), said that he hopes progress towards reform. tax.
Maia said that he hopes that the reform rapporteur, Aguinaldo Ribeiro (PP-PB), and the government leader in the Chamber, Ricardo Barros (PP-PR), will arrive this week for a tax reform text to be presented to other leaders.
According to Maia, Aguinaldo, who is also the leader of the Majority in the Chamber, should complete the drafting of the text this Monday, but the points of the proposals are “all in line with the government.”
“I hope that between today and tomorrow, the leader Aguinaldo and the leader Ricardo can advance the text, present it to the leaders, so that we can have a few days there to discuss the matter and be able to vote on it in the plenary session of the Chamber,” said Maia .
He affirmed that the government no longer has “excuses” for not negotiating priority votes, such as the tax reform and the so-called emergency PEC, after the end of the municipal elections and the decision of the STF that prohibited his re-election as head of the Chamber.
He also said that his political field must choose the candidate to succeed him in the coming days.
Among the names in the vicinity of Maia who can run for mayor are Majority Leader Aguinaldo Ribeiro (PP-PB); the leader of the BMD, Baleia Rossi (SP); the vice president of the Chamber Marcos Pereira (PRB-SP) and the deputies Elmar Nascimento (DEM-BA) and Luciano Bivar (PSL-PE).
“In the coming days I will choose, within an alliance that we have been building since September, October, a name, listening to all the parties that participate in it,” Maia told the press.
“As soon as possible, I think the time has come to choose the name. Until the 15th I had already told everyone that, ”said Maia.
The intention is that Maia’s allies can rally around a single candidacy, with the motto of independence of the Chamber, in contrast to the government’s candidate, the leader of the bloc that became known as centão, Arthur Lira (PP-AL ).
It is worth mentioning that, on the eve, in the final leg of the trading session, Brazilian assets reduced or erased profits with the news that an emergency report from the PEC predicts that expenses financed with disaggregated income will remain off the ceiling for a year . The Economy Ministry says it is against any proposal to relax the ceiling, even temporarily. The PEC’s emergency rapporteur, Senator Márcio Bittar, also denied that his text will bring flexibility to the ceiling, which helped alleviate the fall in assets.
Corporate radar
Highlighted on the corporate radar, Azul announced its operational progress for the month of November, when it recorded a 17.5% increase in passenger demand for flights (RPK) compared to October. Compared to November 2019, there was a 30% drop in the indicator.
Ame, a fintech owned by Lojas Americanas and B2W, acquired Bit Capital, an open banking platform. The figures were not disclosed. Qualicorp, for its part, announced that the National Agency for Complementary Health (ANS) approved the purchase of 75% of the share capital of the competitor Plural Saúde by the company.
Oi announced the hiring of the consulting firm Egon Zehnder to evaluate its Board of Directors. The company said that in a meeting on October 16, management signed the contract with the consultancy.
Dommo Energia reported oil production in Tubarão Martelo in November of 51,892 barrels of oil. According to the company, the most recent reference price set by the ANP is US $ 35.07 per barrel.
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