Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Property and Services sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI), which rose 3.24% or 0.420 points to trade at 13.400 at the close. Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) added 2.59% or 0.600 points to end at 23.800 and DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC) was up 2.56% or 0.300 points to 12.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Ayala Corp (PS:AC), which lost 2.81% or 25.00 points to trade at 865.00 in late trade. Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) declined 2.64% or 0.950 points to end at 35.000 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) shed 2.49% or 0.220 points to 8.620.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 101 to 90 and 43 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.62% or 7.75 to $1256.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $51.12 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.02 to trade at $54.38 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.02% to 7.2704, while USD/PHP rose 0.03% to 50.150.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.11% at 100.57.