Investing.com – Philippines equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Industrials, Banking & Financials and Mining & Oil sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 0.02%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Petron (PS:PCOR), which rose 6.12% or 0.470 points to trade at 8.100 at the close. Universal Robi (PS:URC) added 2.83% or 5.400 points to end at 196.500 and Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) was up 2.15% or 0.100 points to 4.750 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alliance Globa (PS:AGI), which lost 2.18% or 0.500 points to trade at 22.200 in late trade. Bloomberry Res (PS:BLOOM) declined 1.99% or 0.190 points to end at 9.400 and Lt Group (PS:LTG) shed 1.85% or 0.280 points to 14.880.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 84 and 13 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.01% or 0.10 to $1094.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.19% or 0.09 to hit $43.78 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.15% or 0.07 to trade at $49.16 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.03% to 7.3772, while USD/PHP fell 0.03% to 45.810.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.09% at 97.75.