Investing.com – Mexico stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms Services, Materials and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Mexico, the S&P/BMV IPC fell 0.82%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P/BMV IPC were VOLARIS A (MX:VOLARA), which rose 3.45% or 0.38 points to trade at 11.39 at the close. Meanwhile, Grupo LALA SA de CV (MX:LALAB) added 1.77% or 0.42 points to end at 24.18 and El Puerto De Liverpool Sab De CV (MX:LIVEPOLC1) was up 1.14% or 1.47 points to 129.99 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Cemex SAB de CV (MX:CMXCPO), which fell 2.80% or 0.360 points to trade at 12.500 at the close. Alfa, S.A.B. De C.V. (MX:ALFAA) declined 2.45% or 0.590 points to end at 23.450 and Gruma SAB de CV (MX:GRUMAB) was down 1.78% or 4.03 points to 221.85.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Mexico Stock Exchange by 163 to 117 and 12 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.68% or 9.00 to $1333.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 1.33% or 0.91 to hit $67.73 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 1.08% or 0.81 to trade at $73.90 a barrel.
USD/MXN was down 0.60% to 18.8270, while EUR/MXN fell 0.38% to 23.0319.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 90.56.