SAO PAULO, 10/23/09 - Global trading on Thursday was influenced by corporate balances and by the announcement of an 8.9% increase in Chinese GDP. Wall Street bourses were mixed, but ended the session in positive territory, following the good results by McDonald's, 3M and Xerox. Dow Jones rose 1.33%, to 10,081 points; Nasdaq gained 0.68%, to 2,165 points; and the S&P 500 rose 1.06%, to 1,092 points.

In Brazil the Bovespa stock exchange ended the session in positive territory for the third consecutive day. The gains were mostly prompted by blue chips Petrobras and Vale and by bank shares. The Ibovespa index closed up 0.99% on Thursday, at 66,134 points, on a trading volume of R$5.72 billion.

On the fixed-income market, the interest rate futures contract maturing January 2011, the most liquid, projected 10.30%.

On the foreign exchange market, the US dollar closed down 0.06% against the real, sold at R$1.72.

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