Peru · PEN · Lima

Bolsa de Valores de Lima

BVL, Lima: trading hours, tickers, settlement and indices, and how its historical price data arrives on DataCedar.

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BVL trading day, Monday to Friday

09:00 to 16:00 PET14:00 to 21:00 UTC

S&P/BVL Peru General, priced in PEN, settling T+2.

1860
Founded in Lima
200
Listed companies
USD 150 billion
Market capitalisation

BVL key facts

  • Bolsa de Valores de Lima is a Peru stock exchange in Lima, founded in 1860, trading in PEN; its headline indices are S&P/BVL Peru General.
  • BVL trades 09:00 to 16:00 PET, Monday to Friday, settling T+2; it lists about 200 listed companies (2025).
  • BVL is wave 4 of the DataCedar launch order; its pages appear the day its collectors run.
  • Daily bars run back to each symbol's first sourced session; minute bars run from the day capture began for the symbol and are never backfilled.
  • Trading sessions follow the America/Lima calendar.

About BVL

Full name
Bolsa de Valores de Lima
Location
Lima, Peru
Founded
1860
Operator
nuam exchange (with Santiago and Colombia)
Regulator
Superintendencia del Mercado de Valores (SMV)
Trading hours
09:00 to 16:00 PET
Trading days
Monday to Friday
Time zone
America/Lima
Currency
PEN
Settlement
T+2
Ticker convention
Letter codes with class suffixes (CREDITC1, BAP, VOLCABC1)
Headline indices
S&P/BVL Peru General
Listed
about 200 listed companies (2025)
Market capitalisation
about USD 150 billion (2025)
  • A mining heavy market; the S&P/BVL Peru General is the benchmark.
  • Many shares trade in both soles and US dollars.
  • Part of the nuam integration with Chile and Colombia.
  • BVL publishes daily data; historical data is licensed through its data services.

BVL historical data on DataCedar

BVL comes online in wave 4 of the launch order, which follows measured demand. On that day every listing gets a page with its returns, records and year by year table, and the same API call as every other exchange: daily bars back to the first session that can be sourced, minute bars from the day capture starts, priced in PEN, session dates on the BVL calendar.

Until then the exchange's own publications (see its data note above) are the source for BVL history. Read the coverage note, see pricing for the plan windows, or tell us which symbols you need.

BVL data by API

One call per symbol, the same schema on every exchange. timeframe is 1Min, 5Min, 15Min, 1Hour or 1Day; adjustment is raw, split, dividend or all; start and end bound the window. See the bars endpoint.

curl "https://api.datacedar.com/v3/stocks/SYMBOL/bars?timeframe=1Day&adjustment=all&limit=50000" \
  -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY"

Until it is liveBVL on DataCedar

BVL comes online in wave 4 of the launch order. On that day every listing gets a page and the same API call as every other exchange.

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