Key Facts
The COLCAP closed at 2,301.34 points, adding a modest 0.13% in a session where steady oil prices lent quiet support to the heavily weighted energy sector.
Colombia’s peso strengthened to 3,256 per US dollar, a 0.39% gain that leaves the currency just 1.3% above its 52-week low and still 15.7% below its one-year high.
Ecopetrol, the state-controlled oil major and the index’s heaviest single stock, dominated turnover again as traders treated it as the session’s primary conduit for crude-market sentiment.
The move was part of a broad regional uptick that saw Mexico’s IPC add 0.89% and Chile’s IPSA rise 0.52% while the S&P 500 gained 0.89% in New York, setting an amiable backdrop for emerging-market equities.
