Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Industrials and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 1.03% to hit a new 6-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Inretail Peru (LM:INR), which rose 1.21% or 0.300 points to trade at 25.000 at the close. Luz Del Sur (LM:LUZ) added 0.25% or 0.030 points to end at 11.980 and Unacem (LM:CEL) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to 2.850 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Candente Copper (LM:DNT), which lost 15.87% or 0.0100 points to trade at 0.0530 in late trade. Bolsa de Valores de Lima SAA (LM:BVL) declined 12.42% or 0.390 points to end at 2.750 and Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) shed 7.96% or 0.070 points to 0.810.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 6 and 14 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for August delivery was up 0.71% or 0.52 to $73.28 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in September rose 0.06% or 0.05 to hit $77.53 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract fell 0.53% or 6.60 to trade at $1249.50 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.03% to 3.2725, while EUR/PEN rose 0.02% to 3.7910.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 95.00.