THE extrajudicial liquidation of Banco Master had limited impact on the financial market. Despite the decline in bank shares, the stock market fell slightly. Influenced from abroad, the dollar fell after the high of the day before.
The Ibovespa index, from B3, closed this Tuesday (18) at 156,522 points, with a decline of 0.3%. The indicator fell 0.7% in the first minutes of trading, but partially recovered in the afternoon.
Bank shares, with an important weight in the Ibovespa, fell this Tuesday, pulling the index down. However, most of the fall was due to the influence of American stock markets, which fell amid uncertainty about companies in the artificial intelligence sector.
The foreign exchange market had a day of fluctuations. The commercial dollar ended this Tuesday sold at R$ 5.318, with a drop of R$ 0.014 (-0.26%). The price rose to R$5.34 in the first minutes of trading and in the early afternoon, but reversed its movement and began to fall from 1:20 pm onwards, stabilizing at R$5.31 in the final hour of trading.
On a day without the release of important economic indicators, the US currency operated without a single direction in relation to the currencies of emerging countries. The dollar rose against the Chilean peso, but fell against the Colombian peso and the Mexican peso.
Global investors are awaiting economic data from the United States, after around 40 days of shutdown (government shutdown). On Wednesday (19), the Federal Reserve (Fed, American Central Bank) releases the minutes of the October 29 meeting. On Thursday (20) employment data will be released in the United States. The two documents are expected to give clues as to whether the Central Bank of the largest economy on the planet will be able to cut basic interest rates in December.
*With information from Reuters
