Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Industrials, Property and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Globe Telecom (PS:GLO), which rose 3.99% or 100.000 points to trade at 2608.000 at the close. Metro Pacifi I (PS:MPI) added 2.14% or 0.100 points to end at 4.770 and Aboitiz Equity (PS:AEV) was up 0.79% or 0.450 points to 57.450 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Universal Robi (PS:URC), which lost 3.64% or 7.600 points to trade at 201.000 in late trade. Philex Mining (PS:PX) declined 2.55% or 0.170 points to end at 6.490 and Petron (PS:PCOR) shed 1.91% or 0.190 points to 9.750.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 127 to 71 and 15 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.66% or 8.00 to $1212.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.30% or 0.18 to hit $60.54 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.29% or 0.19 to trade at $66.35 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.08% to 7.1719, while USD/PHP fell 0.07% to 44.447.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.38% at 95.11.