Investing.com – Mexico equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms Services, Healthcare and Financial Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Mexico, the IPC lost 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the IPC were Industrias Penoles Sab De CV (MX:PENOLES), which rose 3.07% or 13.480 points to trade at 452.030 at the close. Infraestructura Energetica Nova SAB (MX:IENOVA) added 2.17% or 1.72 points to end at 81.00 and VOLARIS A (MX:VOLARA) was up 2.12% or 0.74 points to 35.65 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Gentera SAB de CV (MX:GENTERA), which lost 2.36% or 0.870 points to trade at 36.000 in late trade. Grupo Aeroportuario Del Sureste (MX:ASURB) declined 2.05% or 6.010 points to end at 286.500 and Genomma Lab Internacional SAB De CV (MX:LABB) shed 1.77% or 0.370 points to 20.510.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 106 to 61 and 5 ended unchanged on the Mexico Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.42% or 5.25 to $1259.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.52% or 0.26 to hit $50.44 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.39% or 0.20 to trade at $52.01 a barrel.
USD/MXN was up 0.13% to 18.9436, while EUR/MXN rose 0.58% to 20.9380.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.46% at 97.54.