No trading in the U.S., Europe follows Ibovespa

On a public holiday in the United States, in Europe gave the bag back on top and closed higher on Monday (16 / 1).

"The market is returning a bit of a bad mood on the floor since Friday they closed in the red because of the downgrades," says Sergio Manoel Correia, economist at Investment LLA.

Here, the Bovespa index followed this positive pace and closed with an appreciation of 1.37% at 59,956 points.

"The pace of indicators and the weak recovery in Europe's stock index rose Paulo. The movement could have been greater if the session was open in the United States," mused Correia.

Near the close, the BM & F Bovespa reported that the exercise of stock options contracts traded, the Bovespa, R $ 4.457 billion.

Of the total, R $ 3.442 billion correspond to call options and R $ 1.015 billion to put options.

The options that recorded the highest trading volume in the exercise were: Petrobras PN and PNA Valley.

With this result the volume of trading on the Bovespa index closed at R $ 8.800 billion.

In the old continent, the stock ended the day in high motivated by the announcement that the French Treasury held a bond issue in the short term for € 8.590 billion with a low interest rate.

In London FTSE 100 rose 0.37%, in Paris the CAC 40 gained 0.89% and in Frankfurt, the DAX advanced 1.25%.

Remember that on Friday, the stock exchange in Europe operated in the red in response to news that nine of the 17 eurozone members have had their credit scores lowered by Standard & Poor's (S & P).

Highlights

Among the stocks that comprise the Bovespa index, shares of OGX (OGXP3) led gains, up 5.79% to R $ 14.98.

The company announced today that it has identified the presence of hydrocarbons in the shallow waters of the Santos Basin. The discovery was made in the OGX-63, located 102 km off the coast of the state of Rio de Janeiro. According to the company, the drilling showed "strong presence of gas."

At the other end, the roles of Souza Cruz (CRUZ3) had the highest low, down 1.52%, priced at U.S. $ 21.95.

Exchange

In the foreign exchange market, the dollar closed down 0.11% against the real, quoted at R $ 1.7860 to buy and R $ 1.7880 in the sale.