Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Banking & Financials and Food & Beverages sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 0.54%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which rose 3.12% or 0.050 points to trade at 1.650 at the close. Candente Copper (LM:DNT) added 2.17% or 0.0010 points to end at 0.0470 and PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX) was unchanged 2.00% or 0.00 points to 0.05 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Empresa Agroindustrial Pomalca (LM:POM), which lost 4.17% or 0.006 points to trade at 0.138 in late trade. Atacocha (LM:ATB) declined 3.70% or 0.010 points to end at 0.260 and Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) shed 2.41% or 0.020 points to 0.810.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 16 to 9 and 10 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.44% or 0.20 to $45.33 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.13% or 0.06 to hit $47.96 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.23% or 2.85 to trade at $1224.55 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2535, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.7182.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.41% at 95.58.