Dollar opens lower with employment data and Fed minutes on radar

O dollar operates in decline in Brazil this Tuesday morning (30), the last session of the year, with agents evaluating data from the domestic labor market while awaiting the publication of the minutes of the Federal Reserve’s last December monetary policy meeting, at 4 pm.

Abroad, the US currency has a mixed performance against other currencies.

At 9:30 am, the spot dollar fell 0.31%, to R$5.5379 on sale.

Unemployment rate

In the quarter ended in November, the unemployed population in the country stood at 5.644 million, the lowest number in the historical series.

The lower unemployment rate was accompanied by a new record in the number of people employed in the country: 103.2 million. The occupancy level was 59.0%.

* With information from Reuters

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