Market turns attention to disclosure of GDP for 2022; Petrobras has record profit

Thursday (2) begins with the market’s eyes focused on the performance of the national GDP for the fourth quarter of 2022 and the consolidated annual result.

At the beginning of last year, projections spoke of annual growth close to zero. Now, the expectation is that it stays in the range of 3%.

A closer look at the latest quarterly performances, however, shows that a trend of economic deceleration, also with chances of technical recession, may be taking shape.

While the data do not come out, the market continues trying to digest the recent changes involving Petrobras, in particular the suggestion by the Board of Directors of the state-owned company to create a “statuary reserve” – ​​a kind of new dividend policy that would retain part of the remuneration of shareholders , but which still needs to be approved.

The company recorded the best financial result in history in the last year, according to the balance sheet released on Wednesday (1st). Petrobras’ net profit was around BRL 200 billion, marking a 77% jump compared to 2021.

The performance of the state-owned company, however, was the target of criticism from the president of the Workers’ Party (PT), Gleisi Hoffmann, who defended on Twitter that the distribution of dividends by the company is “indecent”.

In this Thursday’s episode, the CNN Money It also turns to the omission of Americanas’ board of directors regarding operations that may have caused the company’s millionaire deficit, according to information provided by an internal audit.

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*Posted by Tamara Nassif