Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Mining and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 1.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA), which rose 11.77% or 0.200 points to trade at 1.900 at the close. Luz Del Sur (LM:LUZ) added 2.92% or 0.360 points to end at 12.700 and Cem Pacasmayo (LM:CPA) was up 0.24% or 0.020 points to 8.190 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Panoro (LM:PML), which lost 8.33% or 0.025 points to trade at 0.275 in late trade. Casa Grande (LM:CSG) declined 5.35% or 0.340 points to end at 6.010 and Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG) shed 4.85% or 0.080 points to 1.570.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 25 to 5 and 11 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Crude oil for January delivery was down 0.03% or 0.02 to $57.45 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in February rose 0.34% or 0.21 to hit $62.66 a barrel, while the February Gold Futures contract fell 0.74% or 9.40 to trade at $1268.30 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was up 0.12% to 3.2355, while EUR/PEN fell 0.22% to 3.8242.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 93.28.