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Colombia’s equity benchmark rose 1.33% on Friday to sit within a whisker of its 52-week high, while the peso did the louder work, closing at 3,241.75 per dollar — its strongest official print in years.

The common thread was oil: Brent held above $76 a barrel as renewed US-Iran hostilities kept shipping through the Strait of Hormuz disrupted, a risk premium that flatters Ecopetrol’s earnings outlook even as it complicates the inflation picture at home.

Today’s scan carried index-level and currency data but no verified single-stock prints, so the read on Ecopetrol, Bancolombia, ISA, Grupo Sura and GEB individually stays qualitative rather than numeric.