Investing.com – Peru stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Industrials, Non-Metal Minerals and S&P Lima Juniors sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General gained 0.05%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which rose 5.33% or 0.080 points to trade at 1.580 at the close. Meanwhile, Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) added 3.33% or 0.030 points to end at 0.930 and Atacocha (LM:ATB) was up 3.16% or 0.012 points to 0.392 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Buenaventura (LM:BVN), which fell 2.34% or 0.320 points to trade at 13.380 at the close. Minsur (LM:MINi) declined 2.21% or 0.030 points to end at 1.330 and Southern Copper Corp (LM:SPC) was down 1.86% or 0.77 points to 40.63.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lima Stock Exchange by 22 to 9 and 10 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 2.46% or 1.13 to $47.09 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $52.77 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.95% or 12.43 to trade at $1326.53 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2385, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.8508.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 92.59.