Investing.com – Peru stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Food & Beverages and Banking & Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General declined 0.59%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Candente Copper (LM:DNT), which rose 59.62% or 0.0310 points to trade at 0.0830 at the close. Meanwhile, Minera Irl (LM:IRL) added 7.58% or 0.01 points to end at 0.07 and Volcan Compania Minera SAA (LM:VOLa) was up 5.88% or 0.100 points to 1.800 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Austral Group SAA (LM:AUG), which fell 10.07% or 0.150 points to trade at 1.340 at the close. Trevali Mining (LM:TV) declined 5.17% or 0.060 points to end at 1.100 and Southern Copper Corp (LM:SPC) was down 2.45% or 0.98 points to 39.02.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lima Stock Exchange by 16 to 13 and 11 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for September delivery was up 0.34% or 0.16 to $46.94 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in October fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $50.85 a barrel, while the December Gold Futures contract rose 0.78% or 9.96 to trade at $1292.86 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2425, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.8079.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 93.64.