The Lima Stock Exchange (BVL) closed the day on Tuesday, February 15, with gains in its main indices, with 14 indicators in green and 2 in red.
At 4:50 pm, the S&P/BVL Peru General index, the most representative of the Lima stock market, rose 2.22% to 24,228.56 points, which was a record. Similarly, the S&P/BVL Peru Selective index, which is made up of the most traded shares in the local market, reached 1.95% and stood at 635.01 units.
Only the service and electricity sectors ended the day in the red with the same losses of 1.52%. The financial sector finished in green with 3.67%, the mining sector with 2.79%, construction with 1.32%, industrial with 1.30% and consumption with 0.63%.
The best quoted shares were those of Minsur, with 8.08%; PPX Mining Corp (6.67%); Aenza (5.30%), Credicorp (3.90%), Buenaventura (3.88%). On the negative side, Energía Perú fell 3.03%, Trevali lost 2.00% and Empresa Siderúrgica fell 1.23%.
At the local level, it should be considered that the fiscal deficit accumulated in the last 12 months continued to decline, from 8.8% of GDP in January 2021 to 2.5% of GDP in January 2022. The decrease in the annualized deficit compared to the first The month of 2021 responded, to a greater extent, to the increase in the current income of the General Government; and to a lesser extent, to lower non-financial expenses as a percentage of the product and to the surplus primary result of state companies, reported Renta4.
Source: Larepublica
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