Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Property, Industrials and Mining & Oil sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which rose 3.36% or 3.150 points to trade at 96.800 at the close. Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co (PS:MBT) added 2.84% or 2.40 points to end at 86.90 and PLDT Inc (PS:TEL) was up 1.92% or 33.00 points to 1755.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Universal Robina Corp (PS:URC), which lost 2.99% or 5.00 points to trade at 162.50 in late trade. Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC) declined 2.03% or 3.30 points to end at 159.00 and Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) shed 1.44% or 0.060 points to 4.120.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 122 to 82 and 33 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.37% or 4.47 to $1228.67 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.25% or 0.12 to hit $47.71 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.26% or 0.13 to trade at $50.64 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.28% to 7.2092, while USD/PHP fell 0.10% to 49.755.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 99.54.