Lima ¨C Peru¡¯s roller-coaster presidential election remains too ?close to call with conservative Keiko Fujimori losing some of her gains from earlier in the day amid a boost in local markets on Tuesday.
Fujimori came within 0.1%?¡ª or about 20,000 votes?¡ª of leftist Roberto Sanchez as foreign ballots largely fell in her favor, but Sanchez began to gain ground again later in the day and ?now leads by just over 40,000 votes?¡ª or 50.12% to Fujimori¡¯s 49.88% ¡ª?with 96.27% of the vote ?counted, according ?to Peru¡¯s electoral authority.
Peru¡¯s main stock index finished up 3.7% on Tuesday ?after surging more than 7% earlier in the day while U.S.-listed shares of Peruvian stocks such as miner Buenaventura rose 2.5% and Intercorp Financial Services jumped 11.4%; the iShares MSCI Peru and Global Exposure ETF was up ?5.5%.
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