Investing.com – Philippines equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking & Financials, Mining & Oil and Property sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 1.14%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO), which rose 3.79% or 5.70 points to trade at 156.00 at the close. Bank of the Philippine Islands (PS:BPI) added 3.67% or 4.40 points to end at 124.40 and Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) was up 3.42% or 0.200 points to 6.050 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB), which lost 1.16% or 3.00 points to trade at 255.00 in late trade. Emperador Inc (PS:EMP) declined 1.04% or 0.080 points to end at 7.620 and Ayala Corp (PS:AC) shed 0.55% or 6.00 points to 1089.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 141 to 64 and 45 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.42% or 5.70 to $1350.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.83% or 0.51 to hit $62.06 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.59% or 0.38 to trade at $65.22 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.49% to 8.2777, while USD/PHP rose 0.44% to 52.494.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 89.04.