Investing.com – Peru stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Industrials, Non-Metal Minerals and Food & Beverages sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General gained 0.90%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Grana Y Monter (LM:GRA), which rose 7.50% or 0.150 points to trade at 2.150 at the close. Meanwhile, Volcan Minera (LM:VOL_pb) added 3.95% or 0.030 points to end at 0.790 and Intergroup (LM:IFS) was up 2.48% or 0.800 points to 33.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Minera Irl (LM:IRL), which fell 5.49% or 0.01 points to trade at 0.09 at the close. Empresa Agroindustrial Pomalca (LM:POM) declined 1.37% or 0.002 points to end at 0.144 and Sider (LM:SID) was down 0.85% or 0.003 points to 0.350.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Lima Stock Exchange by 16 to 11 and 10 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for August delivery was down 2.28% or 0.99 to $42.52 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in August unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $44.77 a barrel, while the August Gold Futures contract rose 0.36% or 4.49 to trade at $1247.99 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.2720, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.6449.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 97.22.