Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Holding Firms 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 Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB), which rose 3.28% or 8.00 points to trade at 252.00 at the close. Universal Robina Corp (PS:URC) added 2.51% or 3.50 points to end at 143.00 and Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) was up 1.88% or 0.450 points to 24.450 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc (PS:AEV), which lost 2.60% or 1.950 points to trade at 73.000 in late trade. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 2.45% or 0.120 points to end at 4.780 and SM Prime Holdings Inc (PS:SMPH) shed 2.17% or 0.750 points to 33.850.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 144 to 53 and 52 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.32% or 4.16 to $1294.26 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 1.03% or 0.50 to hit $48.09 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.94% or 0.49 to trade at $51.41 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.18% to 7.6520, while USD/PHP rose 0.37% to 50.980.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 93.33.