The Lima Stock Exchange (BVL) closed the session on Monday, August 15, 2022 buoyed by the poor performance of the mining sector. Thus, he scored 12 indicators down and 4 up.
In this way, the S&P/BVL Peru General Index, Lima’s most representative stock market, fell -1.1o% to 20,087.04 points. Meanwhile the S&P/BVL Peru Selective Indexwhich consists of the most traded stocks in the local market, lost -1.28% to trade at 528.04 units.
The mining sector posted the most losses on the day, falling -2.07%, followed by construction at -1.38%, financials at -1.16% and industrials at -0.80%. Consumption, on the other hand, grew by 0.27%, as did services and electricity by 0.02% each.
The stocks that fell the most in the index were ATACOAC1 -9.09%, UNACEMC1 -4.55% and VOLCABC1 -2.99%. On the other hand, AENZAC1 9.78%, ETNAI1 1.85% and ALICORC1 1.67% increased the most.
Meanwhile, on Wall Street, the main indices rose, reversing losses from the previous session after rising for four consecutive weeks of gains and a likely moderation of rate hikes by the US Federal Reserve following a slowdown in inflation.
The Dow Jones Industrial Average (.DJI) was up 0.42% to 33,903.57, the benchmark S&P 500 index (.SPX) was up 0.37% to 4,296.09 points and the Nasdaq Composite (.IXIC) was up 0 .59% to 13,123.89.
US Treasury yields were slightly lower as the market continued to assess how slowing inflation could affect the Federal Reserve’s monetary tightening policy.
With information from Portal.