Brazilian stocks’ record run (preview)

About this episode

The episode discusses the recent record highs of the Ibovespa index and its significant gains in early 2026.

190,000 points. After a string of record highs that have been piling up since mid-January, the Ibovespa — the benchmark index of São Paulo’s stock exchange, the B3 — surpassed this historic threshold during Wednesday, February 11, closing the day just shy of it. Financial trading volume totaled BRL 38.6 billion, or about USD 7.7 billion. With this result, and only six weeks into the year, Ibovespa has already posted gains of over 18% in 2026. To give a sense of the scale, stock exchange dat...

Topics covered

• Brazilian stocks
• Ibovespa
• financial markets
• record highs
• trading volume
• stock exchange

Keywords

• Ibovespa
• Brazilian stocks
• B3
• financial trading
• record highs
• stock market

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: B3

Places: São Paulo

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