Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Services, Property and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite declined 1.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO), which rose 1.67% or 1.80 points to trade at 109.80 at the close. SM Investments Corp (PS:SM) added 0.52% or 3.500 points to end at 673.500 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 0.20% or 0.020 points to 10.180 in late trade.
Biggest losers included International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which lost 3.75% or 3.000 points to trade at 77.000 in late trade. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 3.48% or 0.170 points to end at 4.720 and LT Group Inc (PS:LTG) shed 3.41% or 0.540 points to 15.300.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 118 to 65 and 45 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.28% or 3.65 to $1329.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.28% or 0.61 to hit $47.22 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.37% or 0.68 to trade at $49.13 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.29% to 7.2666, while USD/PHP rose 0.27% to 48.470.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.23% at 95.65.