Investing.com – Peru equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the S&P Lima Juniors, Banking & Financials and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General rose 0.58% to hit a new 1-month high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX), which rose 9.09% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.06 at the close. Trevali Mining (LM:TV) added 6.25% or 0.060 points to end at 1.020 and Panoro (LM:PML) was up 4.70% or 0.011 points to 0.245 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Candente Copper (LM:DNT), which lost 8.75% or 0.0070 points to trade at 0.0730 in late trade. Casa Grande (LM:CSG) declined 1.80% or 0.100 points to end at 5.450 and Cerro Verde (LM:CVE) shed 1.36% or 0.400 points to 29.100.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 18 to 12 and 9 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was up 0.57% or 0.36 to $63.73 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $68.53 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract fell 0.77% or 10.30 to trade at $1329.90 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was up 0.02% to 3.2270, while EUR/PEN fell 0.46% to 3.9481.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.38% at 90.12.