Investing.com – Peru stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the S&P Lima Juniors, Food & Beverages and Banking & Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 0.31%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Volcan Compania Minera SAA (LM:VOLa), which rose 5.56% or 0.100 points to trade at 1.900 at the close. Meanwhile, Minera Irl (LM:IRL) unchanged 2.86% or 0.00 points to end at 0.07 and Bco Continenta (LM:CON) was up 2.50% or 0.100 points to 4.100 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Candente Copper (LM:DNT), which fell 10.00% or 0.0080 points to trade at 0.0720 at the close. Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) declined 3.30% or 0.030 points to end at 0.880 and Atacocha (LM:ATB) was down 2.90% or 0.011 points to 0.369.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lima Stock Exchange by 19 to 11 and 12 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for October delivery was up 1.15% or 0.55 to $48.38 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.08% or 0.04 to hit $52.49 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.38% or 4.91 to trade at $1295.91 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2376, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.8215.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.30% at 93.14.