Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Property and Holding Firms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 1.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were LT Group Inc (PS:LTG), which rose 3.45% or 0.500 points to trade at 15.000 at the close. First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) added 1.65% or 0.35 points to end at 21.55 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 1.47% or 0.130 points to 9.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC), which lost 5.37% or 8.0000 points to trade at 141.0000 in late trade. Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) declined 2.44% or 0.900 points to end at 36.050 and Ayala Corp (PS:AC) shed 1.96% or 16.000 points to 801.000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 112 to 72 and 51 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.31% or 3.85 to $1255.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.48% or 0.26 to hit $54.19 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.53% or 0.30 to trade at $56.28 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.18% to 7.3009, while USD/PHP fell 0.06% to 50.180.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 100.86.