Peru shares lower at close of trade; S&P Lima General down 0.18%

Investing.com – Peru equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining , Services and Electricity sectors propelled shares lower.

At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General fell 0.18%.

The biggest gainers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Andino Investment Holding SAA (LM: AIH ), which rose 17.65% or 0.450 points to trade at 3.000 at the close. Grana Y Monter (LM: GRA ) added 5.53% or 0.100 points to end at 1.910 and Panoro (LM: PML ) was up 1.24% or 0.003 points to 0.245 in late trade.

Biggest losers included Candente Copper (LM: DNT ), which lost 12.50% or 0.0100 points to trade at 0.0700 in late trade. PPX Mining Corp (LM: PPX ) unchanged 6.67% or 0.00 points to end at 0.06 and Compania Minera Milpo SAA Class I (LM: MILi ) shed 4.32% or 0.140 points to 3.100.

Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 20 to 9 and 7 ended unchanged on the Lima Stock Exchange.

In commodities trading, Crude oil for May delivery was down 0.90% or 0.59 to $64.66 a barrel. Meanwhile, Brent oil for delivery in June unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $69.03 a barrel, while the April Gold Futures contract fell 1.36% or 18.20 to trade at $1323.80 a troy ounce.

USD/PEN was up 0.18% to 3.2268, while EUR/PEN fell 0.38% to 3.9842.

The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.90% at 89.76.