Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Mining and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General fell 2.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Alicorp (LM:ALI), which rose 1.56% or 0.100 points to trade at 6.500 at the close. Backus Johnsto (LM:BKJi) added 0.14% or 0.020 points to end at 14.030 and Edegel (LM:EDE) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to 2.540 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which lost 13.04% or 0.150 points to trade at 1.000 in late trade. Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) declined 7.94% or 0.050 points to end at 0.580 and Panoro (LM:PML) shed 6.76% or 0.010 points to 0.138.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 28 to 3 and 5 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was up 1.01% or 0.44 to $44.09 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $44.93 a barrel, while the June Gold contract fell 0.84% or 10.80 to trade at $1281.00 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.3290, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.8247.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.27% at 93.27.