Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Food & Beverages and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General fell 0.59%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Candente Copper (LM:DNT), which rose 59.62% or 0.0310 points to trade at 0.0830 at the close. Minera Irl (LM:IRL) added 7.58% or 0.01 points to end at 0.07 and Volcan Compania Minera SAA (LM:VOLa) was up 5.88% or 0.100 points to 1.800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which lost 10.07% or 0.150 points to trade at 1.340 in late trade. Trevali Mining (LM:TV) declined 5.17% or 0.060 points to end at 1.100 and Southern Copper Corp (LM:SPC) shed 2.45% or 0.98 points to 39.02.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 13 and 11 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.34% or 0.16 to $46.94 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in October rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $50.87 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.78% or 9.96 to trade at $1292.86 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2425, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.8079.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 93.64.