Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Banking & Financials and Food & Beverages sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Minsur (LM:MINi), which rose 2.70% or 0.050 points to trade at 1.900 at the close. Inretail Peru (LM:INR) added 2.33% or 0.500 points to end at 22.000 and Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA) was up 2.21% or 0.040 points to 1.850 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Cerro Verde (LM:CVE), which lost 3.33% or 1.000 points to trade at 29.000 in late trade. Panoro (LM:PML) declined 3.00% or 0.009 points to end at 0.291 and Alicorp (LM:ALI) shed 2.96% or 0.340 points to 11.160.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 17 to 14 and 12 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for March delivery was up 0.53% or 0.34 to $64.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April rose 0.66% or 0.45 to hit $68.97 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract rose 0.72% or 9.60 to trade at $1345.00 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.03% to 3.2155, while EUR/PEN rose 0.29% to 3.9956.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 88.97.