Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Food & Beverages and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General lost 0.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Volcan Compania Minera SAA (LM:VOLa), which rose 5.56% or 0.100 points to trade at 1.900 at the close. Minera Irl (LM:IRL) unchanged 2.86% or 0.00 points to end at 0.07 and Bco Continenta (LM:CON) was up 2.50% or 0.100 points to 4.100 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Candente Copper (LM:DNT), which lost 10.00% or 0.0080 points to trade at 0.0720 in late trade. Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) declined 3.30% or 0.030 points to end at 0.880 and Atacocha (LM:ATB) shed 2.90% or 0.011 points to 0.369.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 19 to 11 and 12 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.15% or 0.55 to $48.38 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.08% or 0.04 to hit $52.49 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.38% or 4.91 to trade at $1295.91 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2376, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.8215.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 93.14.