Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Industrials, Property and Holding Firms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB), which rose 3.74% or 8.00 points to trade at 222.00 at the close. International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) added 3.13% or 2.350 points to end at 77.500 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 2.94% or 0.300 points to 10.500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC), which lost 3.61% or 0.460 points to trade at 12.300 in late trade. Manila Electric Co (PS:MER) declined 2.81% or 8.000 points to end at 277.000 and Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI) shed 2.74% or 0.400 points to 14.200.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 100 to 73 and 42 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.23% or 2.95 to $1269.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.53% or 0.26 to hit $49.44 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.86% or 0.43 to trade at $50.41 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.07% to 7.1468, while USD/PHP rose 0.20% to 48.443.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.02% at 98.57.