Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Property and Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP), which rose 1.54% or 20.000 points to trade at 1320.000 at the close. Emperador Inc (PS:EMP) added 1.23% or 0.090 points to end at 7.400 and First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) was up 0.91% or 0.20 points to 22.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included LT Group Inc (PS:LTG), which lost 2.71% or 0.340 points to trade at 12.200 in late trade. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 2.33% or 0.090 points to end at 3.780 and Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) shed 2.30% or 40.000 points to 1700.000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 113 to 66 and 56 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.33% or 3.95 to $1195.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.09% or 0.05 to hit $53.06 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $56.02 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.01% to 7.2073, while USD/PHP rose 0.45% to 49.715.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.17% at 101.29.