Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Electricity and Services 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 Corporacion Aceros Arequipa SA (LM:ARE), which rose 7.14% or 0.040 points to trade at 0.600 at the close. Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG) added 3.57% or 0.050 points to end at 1.450 and Aceros Arequip (LM:AREi) was up 3.16% or 0.015 points to 0.490 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Buenaventura (LM:BVN), which lost 2.54% or 0.300 points to trade at 11.500 in late trade. Ferreyros (LM:FER) declined 2.31% or 0.040 points to end at 1.690 and Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) shed 1.37% or 0.010 points to 0.720.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 10 to 7 and 10 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for February delivery was up 0.13% or 0.07 to $53.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in March fell 0.19% or 0.11 to hit $56.74 a barrel, while the February Gold contract fell 0.50% or 5.75 to trade at $1152.35 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.13% to 3.3529, while EUR/PEN rose 0.49% to 3.5386.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.24% at 102.41.