Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Banking & Financials, Mining and Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA), which rose 12.04% or 0.260 points to trade at 2.420 at the close. Atacocha (LM:ATB) added 3.64% or 0.020 points to end at 0.570 and PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX) was unchanged 2.86% or 0.00 points to 0.07 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Credicorp (LM:BAP), which lost 1.80% or 4.21 points to trade at 229.49 in late trade. Southern Copper Corp (LM:SPC) declined 0.91% or 0.51 points to end at 55.62 and Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) shed 0.87% or 0.010 points to 1.140.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 17 to 10 and 14 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 1.56% or 1.05 to $66.34 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June rose 0.06% or 0.04 to hit $71.57 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.07% or 0.90 to trade at $1348.80 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.05% to 3.2245, while EUR/PEN rose 0.28% to 3.9924.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.41% at 89.14.