Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.26%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM), which rose 5.18% or 0.230 points to trade at 4.670 at the close. International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) added 1.89% or 1.500 points to end at 81.000 and Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) was up 1.67% or 0.120 points to 7.320 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO), which lost 3.31% or 65.000 points to trade at 1900.000 in late trade. First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) declined 2.82% or 0.70 points to end at 24.15 and Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) shed 2.52% or 1.000 points to 38.750.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 92 to 90 and 55 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.18% or 2.25 to $1266.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.64% or 0.32 to hit $49.51 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.60% or 0.31 to trade at $51.55 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.02% to 7.2331, while USD/PHP fell 0.02% to 48.270.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 96.24.