Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Holding Firms and Property sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Petron (PS:PCOR), which rose 2.16% or 0.190 points to trade at 9.000 at the close. Sm Prime Hldgs (PS:SMPH) added 2.06% or 0.410 points to end at 20.350 and Dmci Holdings (PS:DMC) was up 0.89% or 0.120 points to 13.440 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Robinsons Land (PS:RLC), which lost 2.84% or 0.850 points to trade at 29.000 in late trade. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 1.80% or 0.090 points to end at 4.870 and Ayala Land (PS:ALI) shed 1.73% or 0.650 points to 36.800.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 92 to 82 and 20 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.40% or 4.70 to $1168.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.66% or 0.38 to hit $56.55 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.73% or 0.46 to trade at $61.62 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.25% to 7.2611, while USD/PHP fell 0.23% to 45.060.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.18% at 96.11.