Exchanges in the United States operated in a mixed field throughout the day, with investors worried about new restrictions related to Covid-19 in the country and in Europe, as well as the price of oil that reached lows since September. Situation that remained until the closing of the session.
The Dow Jones ended up down 0.75%, to 35,602 points, and the S&P 500 traded down 0.14%, to 4,697 points, while the Nasdaq rose 0.40%, to 16,057 points.
The North American technology index hit a record 16,102,722 points this afternoon, supported by the fall in Treasuries (US treasury), a move that improves the financing scenario for technology companies, highly dependent on flows of futures box.
Petroleum
At 6:01 pm, the global benchmark Brent crude was trading at $78.42, down 3.48%.
Goldman Sachs said a coordinated release of the commodity from strategic oil reserves could only be a short-term solution to a supply deficit and pose a risk to the US bank’s 2022 forecast.
OPEC+ (Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries and Allies) has agreed to stick to its current plans to increase oil production, despite calls from the United States for extra supplies to cool rising prices.
pandemic in USA
According to Our World In Data, last night (18), the United States registered 110,304 new cases.
195,612,365 people in the US are fully immunized, according to data from the US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) – in Brazil there are 125,986,353.
“There is some risk of the pandemic. However, I don’t believe the US is going in the direction of Austria. If Germany institutes a total blockade, it will likely have an impact again on the supply chain,” said Tom Mantione, managing director of UBS Private Wealth Management in Stamford, Connecticut.
Europe
The Oswaldo Cruz Foundation (Fiocruz) reinforced the alert about the situation of a return of the pandemic in Europe and recalled that some European countries with an increase in the number of cases have vaccination rates higher than those in Brazil.
Countries like Lithuania, Austria – 1st country in Europe to impose a new lockdown with fear of the 5th wave – and Germany have higher percentages of the vaccinated population, 65.2%, 63.7% and 67%, respectively, when compared to Brazil , from 60%.
However, they face a new high in hospitalizations, in addition to the increase in the indicator of deaths per million inhabitants.
*With Agência Brasil and Reuters
Reference: CNN Brasil
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