Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Food & Beverages and Electricity sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 0.89%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX), which unchanged 1.39% or 0.00 points to trade at 0.07 at the close. Bco Continenta (LM:CON) added 1.15% or 0.050 points to end at 4.400 and Sider (LM:SID) was up 1.03% or 0.005 points to 0.490 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Empresa Agroindustrial Pomalca (LM:POM), which lost 16.26% or 0.033 points to trade at 0.170 in late trade. Cerro Verde (LM:CVE) declined 3.05% or 0.900 points to end at 28.600 and Atacocha (LM:ATB) shed 2.94% or 0.020 points to 0.660.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 22 to 7 and 7 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 1.88% or 1.11 to $57.84 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.41% or 0.26 to hit $63.73 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.48% or 6.24 to trade at $1293.54 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2375, while EUR/PEN fell 0.22% to 3.8560.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 92.86.