Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Industrials, Holding Firms and Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which rose 3.33% or 2.050 points to trade at 63.550 at the close. BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO) added 2.40% or 2.80 points to end at 119.50 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 2.32% or 0.260 points to 11.460 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM), which lost 2.54% or 0.150 points to trade at 5.750 in late trade. Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) declined 2.18% or 48.000 points to end at 2150.000 and Jollibee Foods Corp (PS:JFC) shed 1.87% or 4.800 points to 252.200.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 102 to 82 and 40 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.84% or 11.25 to $1357.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.47% or 0.63 to hit $42.14 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.33% or 0.60 to trade at $44.38 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.08% to 7.0375, while USD/PHP fell 0.33% to 46.727.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.31% at 95.76.