Investing.com – Peru equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Banking & Financials and Food & Beverages sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General gained 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Minera Irl (LM:IRL), which rose 5.26% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.10 at the close. Atacocha (LM:ATB) added 3.03% or 0.020 points to end at 0.680 and Minsur (LM:MINi) was up 2.56% or 0.050 points to 2.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which lost 9.09% or 0.150 points to trade at 1.500 in late trade. Trevali Mining (LM:TV) declined 2.63% or 0.030 points to end at 1.110 and Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA) shed 1.96% or 0.040 points to 2.000.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 19 to 13 and 9 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was up 1.64% or 0.95 to $58.97 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in January rose 0.52% or 0.33 to hit $63.88 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.32% or 4.16 to trade at $1288.04 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was up 0.03% to 3.2375, while EUR/PEN rose 0.75% to 3.8645.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.34% at 92.72.