Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.59%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Jg Summit (PS:JGS), which rose 0.97% or 0.700 points to trade at 73.200 at the close. Metropolitan B (PS:MBT) added 0.92% or 0.85 points to end at 93.50 and Bk Of Phi Isla (PS:BPI) was up 0.89% or 0.90 points to 101.70 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alliance Globa (PS:AGI), which lost 7.20% or 1.750 points to trade at 22.550 in late trade. Bloomberry Res (PS:BLOOM) declined 4.81% or 0.500 points to end at 9.900 and Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) shed 2.62% or 0.140 points to 5.200.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 140 to 56 and 14 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.17% or 2.00 to $1210.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.48% or 0.28 to hit $59.27 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.56% or 0.36 to trade at $65.39 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.17% to 7.1743, while USD/PHP fell 0.27% to 44.465.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.45% at 95.22.