Investing.com – Peru equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the S&P Lima Juniors, Industrials and Non-Metal Minerals sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General gained 0.19% to hit a new 5-year high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Andino Investment Holding SAA (LM:AIH), which rose 3.86% or 0.110 points to trade at 2.960 at the close. Panoro (LM:PML) added 3.33% or 0.009 points to end at 0.279 and PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX) was unchanged 1.41% or 0.00 points to 0.07 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Relapasa (LM:REL), which lost 2.52% or 0.008 points to trade at 0.310 in late trade. Cerro Verde (LM:CVE) declined 1.36% or 0.400 points to end at 29.000 and Buenaventura (LM:BVN) shed 1.26% or 0.210 points to 16.500.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 18 to 12 and 14 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.01% or 0.01 to $68.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June fell 0.20% or 0.15 to hit $73.63 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.84% or 11.30 to trade at $1337.50 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.04% to 3.2185, while EUR/PEN fell 0.26% to 3.9643.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.49% at 90.08.