Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Property, Holding Firms and Mining & Oil sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 1.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO), which rose 1.79% or 2.60 points to trade at 147.60 at the close. Energy Development Corp (PS:EDC) added 0.35% or 0.020 points to end at 5.750 and DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to 15.500 in late trade.
Biggest losers included First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN), which lost 3.68% or 0.68 points to trade at 17.82 in late trade. SM Prime Holdings Inc (PS:SMPH) declined 3.56% or 1.350 points to end at 36.600 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) shed 2.94% or 0.300 points to 9.900.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 133 to 73 and 45 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.23% or 2.96 to $1284.54 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $57.16 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.08 to trade at $64.01 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.15% to 7.7103, while USD/PHP fell 0.13% to 51.194.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 94.45.