Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Property and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.47%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which rose 4.81% or 3.900 points to trade at 85.000 at the close. GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP) added 2.60% or 39.000 points to end at 1539.000 and Philex Mining Corp (PS:PX) was up 0.58% or 0.050 points to 8.700 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC), which lost 4.07% or 4.4000 points to trade at 103.7000 in late trade. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 3.15% or 0.160 points to end at 4.920 and Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM) shed 2.99% or 0.200 points to 6.500.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 95 to 82 and 54 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.56% or 7.65 to $1349.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.88% or 0.41 to hit $46.17 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 1.02% or 0.50 to trade at $48.73 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.29% to 6.9995, while USD/PHP rose 0.35% to 46.414.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.17% at 94.91.