After closing July in red, Bovespa falls on the 1st trading day of August – Globo.com

The Stock Exchange of São Paulo (Bovespa) operates lower on Monday (3), driven by the actions of Petrobras and Bradesco, which announced the purchase of HSBC Brazil.

At 15:35, the main stock stock index retreated 1.37%, to 50,167 points. See the price.

In the same time, shares of Bradesco fell around 2% after the bank announced the purchase of the Brazilian unit of HSBC for US $ 17.6 billion, above the initially speculated by the market . The operation can be completed by June next year.

Itaú Unibanco also retreated after the news, but the Bank of Brazil progressed. Santander, which was also excluded from the first preview of the new portfolio of the Ibovespa, rose.

The ordinary and preferential shares of Petrobras retreated more than 4%, as oil prices fluctuated near the minimum in six months, with new evidence of a growing global supply and weak data in China and the United States. The market is also expecting the balance sheet of the company, scheduled for the next day 6.

The trading session also included the first preview of the Ibovespa portfolio which will run from September to December 2015, which included the action network of pharmacies Raia Drogasil, while left out the roles of developer Gafisa, the Marcopolo bus body manufacturer and the units of Banco Santander Brazil.

China Industry weaker numbers also negatively reverberated in São Paulo Stock Exchange, on which still weighed the decline in oil prices rebounded and new phase of the operation Lava jet, which included arrest of the former minister of Staff José Dirceu.

The analyst Marco Aurelio Barbosa, the CM Capital Markets, said in a statement that August begins under the sign of economic and political crisis, which can keep the defensive stock. For him, among the main factors are risks of impeachment, sovereign rating cut threat, uncertainty of when it will start rising US interest rates and slowing Chinese growth.

The stock market closed higher on Friday -feira (31), but ended the month of July in red. Investors echoed the reporting season of quarterly balance sheets of companies listed on the exchange. The Bovespa index, rose 1.94% to 50,609 points. In July, the stock lost 4.1%. In 2015, however, still up 1.71%.