Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Holding Firms, Property and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 0.91%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Jg Summit (PS:JGS), which rose 3.64% or 2.600 points to trade at 74.000 at the close. Meanwhile, San Miguel Cor (PS:SMC) added 2.81% or 1.350 points to end at 49.350 and First Gen (PS:FGEN) was up 2.57% or 0.65 points to 25.95 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bloomberry Res (PS:BLOOM), which fell 2.76% or 0.170 points to trade at 5.980 at the close. Manila Electri (PS:MER) declined 1.23% or 4.000 points to end at 321.000 and Intl Container (PS:ICT) was down 1.21% or 1.000 points to 81.500.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 100 to 78 and 17 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.29% or 3.30 to $1138.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.76% or 0.35 to hit $46.23 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.58% or 0.28 to trade at $49.27 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.09% to 7.4085, while USD/PHP rose 0.18% to 46.935.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.11% at 96.89.