Investing.com – Peru equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the S&P Lima Juniors, Banking & Financials and Non-Metal Minerals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General added 1.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Panoro (LM:PML), which rose 7.69% or 0.015 points to trade at 0.210 at the close. Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA) added 4.95% or 0.100 points to end at 2.120 and Credicorp (LM:BAP) was up 3.73% or 8.15 points to 226.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which lost 4.17% or 0.050 points to trade at 1.150 in late trade. Casa Grande (LM:CSG) declined 2.94% or 0.120 points to end at 3.960 and Bco Continenta (LM:CON) shed 1.67% or 0.070 points to 4.120.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 13 to 11 and 15 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was down 1.34% or 0.99 to $73.15 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.05% or 0.04 to hit $77.53 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.42% or 5.30 to trade at $1258.80 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.07% to 3.2880, while EUR/PEN rose 0.19% to 3.8470.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 94.13.