EMERGING MARKETS-Chile’s peso outperforms; Peru’s sol drops ahead of elections – Reuters
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By Susan Mathew and Shreyashi Sanyal
May 31 (Reuters) – Chile’s peso outperformed Latin American
peers on Monday as prices for the country’s top export, copper,
rose on supply concerns, while the Peruvian sol fell ahead of
final round presidential elections on June 6.
The Chilean peso rose 0.2% as a strike by a union of
remote operations workers at BHP’s Escondida and Spence copper
mines in Chile disrupted supply.
On the month, however, the currency…
