Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Services, Electricity and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General lost 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX), which unchanged 4.69% or 0.00 points to trade at 0.07 at the close. Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA) added 3.05% or 0.060 points to end at 2.030 and Panoro (LM:PML) was up 2.04% or 0.005 points to 0.250 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Edegel (LM:EDE), which lost 3.19% or 0.060 points to trade at 1.820 in late trade. Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) declined 2.59% or 0.030 points to end at 1.130 and Relapasa (LM:REL) shed 1.72% or 0.005 points to 0.285.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 11 to 8 and 15 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 1.97% or 1.22 to $63.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.03% or 0.02 to hit $68.58 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.26% or 3.50 to trade at $1339.60 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.25% to 3.2244, while EUR/PEN rose 0.11% to 3.9733.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.32% at 89.53.