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The question April left behind

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The extreme

There was nowhere to go. In April 2026, money left everything at once — utilities, financials, cyclicals, all sinking against the Ibovespa — in a retreat so synchronized that the memo dispensed with euphemism: the move was not seeking shelter, it was seeking cash. Cyclicals, which had begun the month in positive territory against non-cyclicals, ended it at an extreme the archive rarely records. And then, at the close of the report, a question was left armed on the table, frozen along with the rest of the month: if that ratio turned back toward zero, it would be "the first sign of discrimination returning to the market." In numbers: the Perene Risk Index plunged from 50.8 to 11.4, full risk-off; the dollar, at R$ 5.03, was the note that did not fit the rest.

What happened next

June moved the piece. The ratio between cyclicals and non-cyclicals left the rare floor and returned to the neighborhood of the ordinary — out of the extreme, still short of center. Utilities and financials narrowed the gap against the index; commodities, which opened the month in the relative lead, lost it. The market that in April sold everything as one block was again telling one thing from another. June's memo gave the gesture a sober name — partial normalization — and noted, in the same breath, that Flow had crossed into risk appetite: the Perene Risk Index rose from 41.9 to 81.7 in the month.

What did not happen

None of this turned into celebration. The intermarket regime did not change its name — moderate risk aversion, with the aggregate score falling from 39.8 to 36.0. Cyclicals assumed no leadership; they merely stopped being the deepest point on the board. And mood ignored the whole scene: the Ânima ended June at 23.2, deep pessimism, entrenched for weeks.

The honest verdict

There is no hit to claim here — and that is the information. April did not bet that cyclicals would come back; it pointed to what would deserve attention if they did. June recorded the move, and the archive kept both ends, dated. Asking well is not predicting: it is the most honesty one month can leave for the next.

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