Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Banking & Financials and Non-Metal Minerals sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General lost 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX), which unchanged 4.17% or 0.00 points to trade at 0.05 at the close. Atacocha (LM:ATB) added 3.33% or 0.010 points to end at 0.310 and Cerro Verde (LM:CVE) was up 2.33% or 0.480 points to 21.080 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Empresa Agroindustrial Pomalca (LM:POM), which lost 6.25% or 0.010 points to trade at 0.150 in late trade. Panoro (LM:PML) declined 5.38% or 0.007 points to end at 0.123 and Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA) shed 3.53% or 0.090 points to 2.460.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 9 to 8 and 17 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for June delivery was down 2.17% or 1.10 to $49.61 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 1.96% or 1.04 to hit $51.95 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 0.13% or 1.70 to trade at $1285.50 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.06% to 3.2426, while EUR/PEN fell 0.52% to 3.4674.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 99.66.