Investing.com – Peru equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the S&P Lima Juniors, Mining and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General added 1.33% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Buenaventura (LM:BVN), which rose 15.63% or 0.730 points to trade at 5.400 at the close. Panoro (LM:PML) added 2.50% or 0.002 points to end at 0.082 and Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) was up 1.75% or 0.005 points to 0.290 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aceros Arequip (LM:AREi), which lost 4.48% or 0.015 points to trade at 0.320 in late trade. Milpo (LM:MIL) declined 3.85% or 0.060 points to end at 1.500 and Unacem (LM:CEL) shed 3.57% or 0.050 points to 1.350.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 10 to 9 and 11 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was down 1.55% or 0.42 to $27.02 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $30.84 a barrel, while the April Gold contract rose 4.31% or 51.50 to trade at $1246.10 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was up 0.26% to 3.5155, while EUR/PEN rose 0.79% to 3.9756.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.21% at 95.64.