Ibovespa closes at a high of 1.3% and clears almost all the fall from the previous trading session; dollar falls to R $ 5.20 and hits a minimum in the year

SÃO PAULO – The Ibovespa closed higher on Thursday (14), offsetting almost all the fall in the index the day before. The main driver of the market both here and abroad were expectations that US President-elect Joe Biden will unveil his trillion-dollar stimulus plan for the US economy overnight.

Even in the United States, there was a speech from the Chairman of the Federal Reserve, Jerome Powell, in the afternoon, who said it was not “soon” the time to raise interest rates. He dismissed speculation that the US central bank could soon begin to cut bond purchases made to increase the amount of currency available in the country.

According to Powell, there is no reason to change the Fed’s position “until the job is well done.”

Here, the news of Value that the president of the Central Bank, Roberto Campos Neto, came to the defense of André Brandão, general director of Banco do Brasil (BBAS3), and had managed to reverse the executive’s resignation, which irritated President Jair Bolsonaro with the reduction of branches. To see more featured stocks, click here.

Also in the news, the coronavirus vaccine developed by Johnson & Johnson would have been shown to be effective in immunizing people with a single dose, according to studies.

The Ibovespa rose 1.27% to 123,480 points with a financial volume of R $ 30.45 billion. The previous day, with a decrease of 1.7%, the benchmark index had gone from 123,998 points to 121,933 points.

Meanwhile, the commercial dollar fell 1.9% to R $ 5,2087 in the purchase and R $ 5,2097 in the sale, its lowest value since December 30, 2020, when it was R $ 5,1887 . The US dollar maturing in February has losses of 1.94%, at R $ 5.20 in the Secondary market.

In the future interest market, the ID of January 2022 fell two basis points to 3.26%, the ID of January 2023 fell nine basis points to 4.95%, the ID of January 2025 fell 13 basis points in 6.46% and the DI of January 2027 registered a negative variation of 17 basis points at 7.11%.

Back in the United States, the impeachment process against President Donald Trump passed by 232 votes to 197 in the House of Representatives. With that, he becomes the first president in the history of the country to suffer two impeachments.

Now the case goes to the Senate, where a kind of trial takes place. The House selects MPs to act as prosecutors and present the case against the president.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnel said that even if the process begins this week and moves quickly, a verdict is unlikely to reach a verdict before the president resigns. “This is not my decision, it is a fact,” he said.

Democratic leaders in the Senate publicly argue the possibility of voting impeachment after the transition, and withdrawing Trump’s right to run again in the next election, in addition to extinguishing the privileges granted to other former presidents.

Investors are also echoing the data from China: the country had a trade surplus of $ 78.17 billion in December and ended 2020 with a surplus of $ 535.03 billion.

The result of the last month of last year was higher than that observed in November, of US $ 75.42 billion, and the median of the estimates of economists consulted by the Wall Street Journal, of US $ 72.0 billion. In December, China’s exports grew 18.1% compared to the same month in 2019, while imports advanced 6.5%.

Spectacular advance of the coronavirus

However, the news about the contagion of Covid-19 worldwide is not good. On Friday (8), the United Kingdom recorded the record of new cases in one day, 68,053. The death record was registered on Wednesday (12), with 1,564 cases. Germany also posted its record 1-day death toll on Wednesday, 1,207. The record of new cases was registered on December 30, with 49,044.

Here in Brazil, Manaus (AM) had a terrifying day with the oxygen depletion of respirators in hospitals. There was a lot of press in the press that an entire infirmary died due to lack of equipment.

The consortium of press vehicles that systematizes data on Covid collected by state health departments in Brazil announced, at 8 pm on Wednesday (13), the advance of the pandemic in 24 hours in the country.

The 7-day moving average of confirmed cases was 54,703, 52% more compared to the period that ended 14 days earlier. In just one day, 61,966 cases were registered. The 7-day moving average of deaths was 995, 41% more than 14 days earlier. In a single day there were 1,283 deaths.

On Wednesday, the executive secretary of the Ministry of Health, Elcio Franco, said that the federal vaccination campaign against covid must begin at the same time in all capitals.

There will be no privilege for Rio de Janeiro and São Paulo, where the headquarters of Fiocruz (Oswaldo Cruz Foundation) and the Butantan Institute, respectively, will produce the vaccine developed by AstraZeneca in alliance with the University of Oxford and CoronaVac, from the Chinese laboratory. Sinovac. These are the two immunizers of the National Immunization Plan against covid.

In addition, a plane left on Thursday to receive 2 million doses of the vaccine from the University of Oxford and Astrazeneca from the Serum laboratory, which makes the immunizer in India. It is the same product that will be manufactured by Fiocruz in Brazil from imported inputs.

According to data from the Covid-19 Observatory, linked to Fiocruz, the occupancy of ICU beds in hospitals throughout the country is at its highest level since July 2020.

After the hospitalization for Covid-19, the Albert Einstein Hospital, in São Paulo, began to block patients from other states. According to the newspaper Folha de S. PauloSome months ago, patients from other states occupied 25% of the ICU beds.

Outage monitoring

A group of truckers scheduled a national strike of the category for February 1, as a way of trying to pressure the Bolsonaro government to inspect transporters to respect labor rights. They also want the revision of the resolutions of the ANTT (National Land Transport Agency).

According to Valor, the mobilization is led by ANTB (National Transport Association of Brazil) and CNTRC (National Council for the Transportation of Cargo by Road), whose leaders supported Bolsonaro’s election, but have no dialogue with the Ministry of Infrastructure.

In a video that circulates on WhatsApp, Plínio Dias, president of CNTRC and the São José dos Pinhais Truckers Union (PR), says that he was summoned to a meeting in Brasilia on January 26 so that the Minister of Infrastructure Tarcísio de Freitas Listen to the complaints. In a video that circulates in groups on WhatsApp, he affirms that: “The repercussion is so great that there are many truckers who want to be in Brasilia on the 26th. The agenda is yours. I hope that the ministry will arrange an auditorium to receive us ”.

On the political radar, President Jair Bolsonaro sanctioned a bill to bail out states and municipalities, which will allow more states to enter a reformed Fiscal Recovery Regime. Valor highlights that the government intends to boost the massive sales of real estate in the Union between 2021 and 2022, through the creation of real estate funds. The goal is to raise up to R $ 110 billion by the end of 2022.

Corporate radar

Sul América will issue R $ 700 million in debentures, the company reported in a statement to the market. The debenture issue funds will be used to strengthen and adjust liquidity levels and other purposes.

After the low of almost 5% the day before and after falling more than 1% at the beginning of the trading session, Banco do Brasil’s stock closed slightly, differing with the day of high assets of the main banks, such as Itaú , Bradesco and Santander.

Higher highs

Higher number of casualties

Shares rose 1.60% in the early afternoon, the daily Valor Econômico reported that Central Bank President Roberto Campos Neto came out in defense of André Brandão and managed to reverse the possible resignation from the current mandate of Banco do Brasil.

However, for Brandão it is not clear if he will have to review the reduction program that aims to place Banco do Brasil in a situation closer to its competitors, although still slightly below the results of the large banks.

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