Investing.com – Peru stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Banking & Financials and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General lost 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Alicorp (LM:ALI), which rose 4.62% or 0.210 points to trade at 4.760 at the close. Meanwhile, Minsur (LM:MINi) added 2.35% or 0.020 points to end at 0.870 and Trevali Mining (LM:TV) was up 1.20% or 0.005 points to 0.420 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Minera Irl (LM:IRL), which fell 31.75% or 0.02 points to trade at 0.05 at the close. Panoro (LM:PML) unchanged 0% or 0 points to end at 0.080 and Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA) was down 3.70% or 0.100 points to 2.700.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lima Stock Exchange by 15 to 8 and 6 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was down 3.50% or 1.61 to $44.33 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 3.66% or 1.81 to hit $47.71 a barrel, while the December Gold contract fell 1.28% or 14.40 to trade at $1106.60 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.16% to 3.2188, while EUR/PEN rose 0.23% to 3.5950.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.12% at 95.95.