Investing.com – Philippines equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Holding Firms and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Ayala Corp (PS:AC), which rose 5.29% or 55.00 points to trade at 1095.00 at the close. Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) added 4.46% or 0.250 points to end at 5.850 and Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB) was up 4.37% or 10.80 points to 258.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI), which lost 5.41% or 0.820 points to trade at 14.340 in late trade. Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC) declined 3.43% or 1.25 points to end at 35.15 and Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) shed 3.15% or 0.650 points to 20.000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 146 to 68 and 42 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.01% or 0.20 to $1357.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.94% or 0.57 to hit $61.17 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.44% or 0.28 to trade at $64.64 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.08% to 8.2000, while USD/PHP fell 0.16% to 52.009.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 88.60.