Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Industrials, Services and Property sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.44%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS), which rose 2.60% or 2.000 points to trade at 79.000 at the close. SM Investments Corp (PS:SM) added 1.62% or 14.00 points to end at 878.00 and Aboitiz Power Corp (PS:AP) was up 0.60% or 0.25 points to 41.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Energy Development Corp (PS:EDC), which lost 15.13% or 1.070 points to trade at 6.000 in late trade. International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) declined 2.46% or 2.600 points to end at 103.000 and Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC) shed 1.94% or 0.90 points to 45.60.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 156 to 65 and 36 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.14% or 1.83 to $1295.67 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.41% or 0.21 to hit $50.45 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $56.41 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.38% to 7.6572, while USD/PHP fell 0.02% to 50.681.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 92.15.