Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Food & Beverages and Non-Metal Minerals 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 Panoro (LM:PML), which rose 1.87% or 0.003 points to trade at 0.163 at the close. Casa Grande (LM:CSG) added 1.39% or 0.050 points to end at 3.650 and Relapasa (LM:REL) was up 1.24% or 0.002 points to 0.164 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Compania Minera Milpo SAA Class I (LM:MILi), which lost 3.85% or 0.080 points to trade at 2.000 in late trade. Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG) declined 3.20% or 0.040 points to end at 1.210 and Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) shed 2.60% or 0.020 points to 0.750.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 12 to 7 and 13 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for October delivery was up 0.60% or 0.41 to $69.00 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.09% or 0.07 to hit $78.11 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.82% or 9.90 to trade at $1198.30 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.11% to 3.3115, while EUR/PEN fell 0.59% to 3.8572.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.47% at 94.97.