Investing.com – Peru equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the S&P Lima Juniors, Services and Electricity sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General added 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Sider (LM:SID), which rose 2.78% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.740 at the close. PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX) unchanged 2.63% or 0.00 points to end at 0.08 and Buenaventura (LM:BVN) was up 1.64% or 0.250 points to 15.480 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA), which lost 10.87% or 0.250 points to trade at 2.050 in late trade. Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG) declined 3.85% or 0.050 points to end at 1.250 and Sociedad Minera el Brocal SAA (LM:BRO) shed 3.06% or 0.300 points to 9.500.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 15 and 11 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 0.15% or 0.11 to $71.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July fell 0.79% or 0.63 to hit $78.67 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.18% or 2.30 to trade at $1291.70 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was up 0.45% to 3.2896, while EUR/PEN rose 0.29% to 3.8772.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 93.58.