Investing.com – Peru stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Mining, Food & Beverages and Non-Metal Minerals sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Lima, the S&P Lima General added 0.37%.
The best performers of the session on the S&P Lima General were Inretail Peru (LM:INR), which rose 2.78% or 0.500 points to trade at 18.500 at the close. Meanwhile, Minsur (LM:MINi) added 1.57% or 0.020 points to end at 1.290 and Southern Copper Corp (LM:SPC) was up 1.29% or 0.34 points to 26.62 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Panoro (LM:PML), which fell 4.92% or 0.006 points to trade at 0.116 at the close. Milpo (LM:MIL) declined 2.54% or 0.070 points to end at 2.680 and Sider (LM:SID) was down 2.50% or 0.010 points to 0.390.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Lima Stock Exchange by 12 to 9 and 9 ended unchanged.
Crude oil for November delivery was down 1.46% or 0.74 to $50.05 a barrel. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Brent oil for delivery in December fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $51.69 a barrel, while the December Gold contract rose 0.08% or 0.95 to trade at $1256.85 a troy ounce.
USD/PEN was unchanged 0.00% to 3.4015, while EUR/PEN unchanged 0.00% to 3.7499.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.28% at 97.99.