At 10:30 am (Brasilia time) this Friday (26), the Ibovespa showed a moderate drop of 0.50%, to 171,123.94 points, but with an accumulated gain of 1.79% in the partial week. In the last session (25), the main indicator of the Brazilian Stock Exchange (B3) fell 0.87%, to 171,990.20 points. With greater weight in the composition of the B3, the shares of Vale (VALE3) and Petrobras (PETR3; PETR4) operated in negative territory, with drops of 0.29%, 0.82% and 0.99%, respectively. After a battery of data released the day before, such as the preliminary inflation figures in Brazil – which indicated new price increases in June – the market today turns its attention to new employment sector figures. The Brazilian Institute of Geography and Statistics (IBGE) recently announced that the unemployment rate was 5.6% in the quarter ending in May 2026, stable compared to the quarter from December 2025 to February 2026 (5.8%) and 0.6 percentage points lower compared to the moving quarter from March to May 2025 (6.2%). In the United States, after the robust Gross Domestic Product (GDP) result for the quarter released yesterday, today will be marked by the release of the University of Michigan's consumer confidence index and speeches by voting members of the Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC). Neel Kashkar, president of the Federal Reserve (Fed) of Minneapolis, and John Williams, chairman of the Fed of New York, will speak today, potentially giving new signals about the future of US interest rates. On the radar is the resumption of flows in the Strait of Hormuz, as negotiations between the United States and Iran for a permanent ceasefire in the Middle East advance.
This text was translated by machine from Brazilian Portuguese.