Brazil stocks to slog through worst year since 2008 as pandemic strikes

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Brazilian stocks will keep slogging through a year that is shaping up as their worst since the global financial crisis of 2008 due to concerns over the handling of the coronavirus pandemic and its impact on local companies, a Reuters survey showed.

FILE PHOTO: People look at an electronic board showing the graph of fluctuations of market indices at the floor of Brazil's BM&F Bovespa Stock Market in downtown Sao Paulo, Brazil, May 9, 2016. REUTERS/Paulo Whitaker/File Photowould close this year 22.4% lower than at the end of 2019, further scarring Latin America's No.1 economy, already hit by a recession of historic proportions.

The median view would deliver a gain of 4.7% on local equities compared to Monday’s closing values, which were still weak even after the index climbed 34.7% from a nearly three-year low in March at the apex of the virus panic. The country lost its second health minister in a month after Bolsonaro demanded wider use of unproven anti-malarial drugs to fight the coronavirus in one of the pandemic’s worst global hotspots.

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