Santiago's Stock Exchange booms after Rejection won
Santiago's Stock Exchange reached peak figures Monday after Rejection prevailed in Sunday's referendum, which meant the welfare state failed at least for now to become a reality that would have also included differentiated judiciary systems for native groups.
Capitalism's ability to survive the political wave against it drove traders to up their investments, while the Chilean peso also gained some ground against the US dollar, perhaps also boosted by the national holiday in the United States, due to which there were no reference operations.
IPSA, Chile's main stock market index, jumped more than 6% compared to the previous day, reaching 6,013.31 points, its historical maximum according to Bloomberg, although by noon it had fallen to 5,757.89 points.
Recording the most profits Monday were Socovesa (+7.62%), Cencosud (4.93%), Enel Chile (4.58%), and SQM (3.03%), while among those who nevertheless had negative figures were Cencosud Shopping (-3.20%), Parque Arauco (-1.60%) and Vapores (-1.52%).
In this scenario, the IPSA was among the global indexes with the biggest growths, alongside Turkiye's BIST 30 and BIST 100, according to Bloomberg. The Santiago Stock Exchange is now in third place.
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