Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Banking & Financials and Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General lost 0.29% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Empresa Agroindustrial Pomalca (LM:POM), which rose 3.23% or 0.005 points to trade at 0.160 at the close. Ferreyros (LM:FER) added 2.92% or 0.040 points to end at 1.410 and Relapasa (LM:REL) was up 1.50% or 0.003 points to 0.203 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Panoro (LM:PML), which lost 15.38% or 0.020 points to trade at 0.110 in late trade. Intergroup (LM:IFS) declined 1.66% or 0.490 points to end at 29.000 and Trevali Mining (LM:TV) shed 1.25% or 0.010 points to 0.790.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 15 to 10 and 5 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was up 3.49% or 2.03 to $60.17 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 3.15% or 1.98 to hit $64.67 a barrel, while the August Gold contract rose 0.19% or 2.20 to trade at $1175.80 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.1550, while EUR/PEN rose 1.04% to 3.5536.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.05% at 95.17.