The Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) fell 1.5%, its second consecutive negative close, in a session of mixed results globally.
With this movement, its main indicator, the Price and Quotation Index (CPI), fell to 64,366.7 units, after recording a new historical maximum of 65,636.36 units on Friday.
The previous maximum closing of the Mexican market occurred only on Wednesday when it was located at 65,616.43 units, while with the weekly increase it adds two advances in the last three weeks.
“In Mexico, the CPI of the BMV closed the session with a loss of 1.5% and with a low operating volume of 57.89% below its 100-day average,” the director of Economic and Financial Analysis of Banco Base, Gabriela Siller, told EFE.
Within the Mexican market, the specialist added, the losses of the issuers Bolsa Mexicana de Valores (-3.64%), Alsea (-2.92%), Industrias Peñoles (-2.68%), Banorte (-2.35%) and La Comer (-2.23%) stood out.
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On the day, the peso depreciated 0.15% against the dollar, trading at 17.99 units per greenback, compared to 17.97 on the previous day, according to data from the Bank of Mexico.
The volume traded in the market reached 99.7 million securities for an amount of 12,312 million pesos (about 684 million dollars).
Of the 598 firms that traded on the day, 286 ended with their prices rising, 285 had losses and 27 closed unchanged.
The securities with the greatest upward variation were those of the natural gas infrastructure company Esentia Energy (ESENTIA ll), with 3.49%; of Corporación Mexicana de Restaurantes (CMR B), with 3.4%, and of the financial firm Actinver (ACTINVR B), with 2.59%.
In contrast, the largest downward variations were from the wood and paper products company TEAK (TEAK CPO), with –15.62%; of the América soccer club (AGUILA CPO), with –4.9%, and the Mexican Stock Exchange (BOLSA A), with -3.64%.
With information from EFE
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