Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Industrials and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 0.15%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Minsur (LM:MINi), which rose 7.14% or 0.050 points to trade at 0.750 at the close. Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) added 5.00% or 0.019 points to end at 0.399 and Milpo (LM:MIL) was up 5.00% or 0.080 points to 1.680 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Buenaventura (LM:BVN), which lost 3.51% or 0.190 points to trade at 5.230 in late trade. Panoro (LM:PML) declined 2.61% or 0.003 points to end at 0.112 and Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA) shed 1.53% or 0.040 points to 2.580.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 16 to 9 and 9 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for April delivery was down 0.57% or 0.19 to $32.88 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in April fell 0.26% or 0.09 to hit $35.20 a barrel, while the April Gold contract fell 1.24% or 15.30 to trade at $1223.50 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.16% to 3.5225, while EUR/PEN fell 0.49% to 3.8890.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.68% at 98.10.