The Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) is experiencing gains amid the electoral campaign.

The Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV) is operating with gains in its early week negotiations. Averages are advancing, contrary to their counterparts in New York, as the market prepares to receive relevant economic information throughout the week.

The benchmark S&P/BMV IPC index, from the Mexican Stock Exchange (BMV), which includes the 35 most traded local stocks, is up by 0.40% at 55,756.20 units. The FTSE BIVA, from the Institutional Stock Exchange (Biva), rises by 0.51% to a level of 1,153.78 points.

Within the benchmark index, most stocks are operating with gains. Leading these advances are the shares of Megacable, up by 2.42% at 46.10 pesos; Genomma Lab, up by 1.89% at 14.04 pesos, and Grupo Financiero Banorte, up by 1.54% at 179.62.

Outside the index, the shares of the department store chain Liverpool were rising to levels not seen in five years, after S&P Dow Jones Indices preliminarily announced that they would return to be part of the S&P/BMV IPC index sample.

Liverpool’s shares, which had been removed from the benchmark S&P/BMV IPC in September as part of the semiannual rebalancing of the indicator, were up by 2.51% at 128.99 pesos. The new issuer Ollamani and the airline Volaris would be the ones leaving the sample.

Participants expect to receive US labor figures by the end of the week, after Federal Reserve Chairman Jerome Powell testifies before Congress on Wednesday. In Mexico, inflation figures for February are expected.