Investing.com – Philippines equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Property, Holding Firms and Mining & Oil sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite added 1.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Jg Summit (PS:JGS), which rose 4.62% or 3.000 points to trade at 68.000 at the close. Ayala Land (PS:ALI) added 4.00% or 1.500 points to end at 39.000 and Gt Capital Hol (PS:GTCAP) was up 3.84% or 50.000 points to 1351.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bloomberry Res (PS:BLOOM), which lost 1.56% or 0.140 points to trade at 8.830 in late trade. First Gen (PS:FGEN) declined 1.38% or 0.35 points to end at 25.00 and Petron (PS:PCOR) shed 1.32% or 0.120 points to 9.000.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 109 to 67 and 19 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.32% or 3.80 to $1182.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.46% or 0.28 to hit $61.15 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $65.69 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.29% to 7.2738, while USD/PHP rose 0.30% to 45.145.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.55% at 95.10.