Peru shares higher at close of trade; S&P Lima General up 0.39%

Investing.com – Peru equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Non-Metal Minerals , Industrials and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General gained 0.39%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Grana Y Monter (LM: GRA ), which rose 8.37% or 0.170 points to trade at 2.200 at the close. Sider (LM: SID ) added 5.41% or 0.040 points to end at 0.780 and PPX Mining Corp (LM: PPX ) was unchanged 2.70% or 0.00 points to 0.08 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Candente Copper (LM: DNT ), which lost 18.67% or 0.0140 points to trade at 0.0610 in late trade. Trevali Mining (LM: TV ) declined 4.60% or 0.040 points to end at 0.830 and Panoro (LM: PML ) shed 3.41% or 0.009 points to 0.255.

Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 18 to 15 and 9 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for July delivery was down 1.64% or 1.18 to $70.66 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in July unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $78.81 a barrel, while the June Gold Futures contract rose 1.12% or 14.40 to trade at $1304.00 a troy ounce.

USD/PEN was down 0.18% to 3.2675, while EUR/PEN rose 0.24% to 3.8361.

The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 93.72.