Investing.com – Peru stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the S&P Lima Juniors, Mining and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General gained 0.60%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Panoro (LM:PML), which rose 9.76% or 0.016 points to trade at 0.180 at the close. Meanwhile, Relapasa (LM:REL) added 8.00% or 0.012 points to end at 0.162 and Sider (LM:SID) was up 5.77% or 0.030 points to 0.550 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA), which fell 6.11% or 0.110 points to trade at 1.690 at the close. PPX Mining Corp (LM:PPX) unchanged 2.90% or 0.00 points to end at 0.07 and Aceros Arequip (LM:AREi) was down 1.47% or 0.010 points to 0.670.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lima Stock Exchange by 17 to 6 and 11 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was up 0.57% or 0.40 to $70.72 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in November fell 0.03% or 0.02 to hit $78.68 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract fell 0.65% or 7.90 to trade at $1203.40 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was down 0.29% to 3.2898, while EUR/PEN fell 0.46% to 3.8638.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 93.79.