Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining, Industrials and Non-Metal Minerals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General lost 0.38%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which rose 6.67% or 0.100 points to trade at 1.600 at the close. Inversiones Centenario SAA (LM:ICE) added 4.28% or 0.240 points to end at 5.850 and Atacocha (LM:ATB) was up 3.85% or 0.010 points to 0.270 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Minera Irl (LM:IRL), which lost 7.50% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.07 in late trade. Unacem (LM:CEL) declined 3.67% or 0.090 points to end at 2.360 and Relapasa (LM:REL) shed 3.04% or 0.007 points to 0.223.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 14 to 13 and 8 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 1.45% or 0.64 to $44.88 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $47.66 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.29% or 3.63 to trade at $1250.53 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2485, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.7006.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.42% at 95.78.