The US currency oscillated in a wide range, from R $ 5.81 to R $ 5.90 during the session, and closed at R $ 5.81 on Monday (3); Ibovespa fell 0.13%, below 126 thousand
In sight closed down on Monday (3) for the 11th consecutive session after announcing a 1 month truce in the imposition of tariffs on. The US currency oscillated in a wide range, from R $ 5.81 to R $ 5.90 during the session, and closed at R $ 5,8160, down 0.35% on Monday.
In the early afternoon, the real gained strength and began to appreciate, aligned with the behavior of Mexican weight, in the face of information that the imposition of tariffs on Mexico would be suspended for a month. The postponement was first announced by Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum, in a message through the social network X (former Twitter), and confirmed shortly thereafter by Trump himself.
With a minimum of R $ 5,8125, the cash dollar ended the session falling from 0.35%, to R $ 5,8160 – still in the lowest values since the end of November. It was the 11th first consecutive trading session of the American currency, which now has 5.89% devaluation in 2025.
O Lightly rehearsed, at 126,473.23 points at the maxim of the day, but could not take off from the middle to the late afternoon, from the perception of global risk around the confirmation that the United States will use the tariff weapon to press partners such as Canada and Mexico bend to American demands, such as control of fentanil entry and migratory flows to the neighbor.
The possibility of the strategy extending to the European Union and the sudden closure for the US International Assistance Agency with decades of existence, USAID, in a strategy of spending cuts recommended by they mark acceleration of rhetoric and unilateral options that reverberate the world.
Thus, the day was risk aversion, pressing below the actions of actions in New York and in the main squares of Europe. In the early afternoon, a transitional improvement was noted at B3, as the United States and Mexico confirmed a month of a month in the imposition of mutual tariffs. Last week, the government It had announced the 25% imposition on tariffs on Mexico and Canada imports, and 10% on China – the three main trading partners in the United States. Thus, the prospective scenario is commercial war.
In an interview today to reporters at the White House, Trump said he had a “good” conversation with Canadian prime Minister Justin Trudeau earlier, and that the two would talk to themselves at 17h (Brasília time). The Republican did not mean, however, if he intends to hit a pause in the tariff plans, as he did with Mexico on Monday.
Trump claims that Canada “takes advantage” from the US and said it was “very difficult” to do business in the neighboring country. “We don’t need Canada to make our cars, we don’t need to give us their wood, we don’t need them for agricultural products,” he said. “They don’t buy our agricultural products,” he added.
In B3, Ibovespa played minimum from day to 125,566.40 points, leaving opening at 126,134.94 points. In closing, it showed loss of 0.13%, at 125,970.46 points, with turn to R $ 19.5 billion this weekend and month. Oil also oscillated in London and New York, but closed the day on the rise. In New York, the losses of the main indices of closing stocks were between 0.28% (Dow Jones) and 1.20% (NASDAQ).
*Report produced with the aid of AI and information from Estadão Content
Posted by Carol Santos
