Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Holding Firms and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 0.17%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Ayala Corp (PS:AC), which rose 5.29% or 55.00 points to trade at 1095.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) added 4.46% or 0.250 points to end at 5.850 and Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB) was up 4.37% or 10.80 points to 258.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI), which fell 5.41% or 0.820 points to trade at 14.340 at the close. Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC) declined 3.43% or 1.25 points to end at 35.15 and Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) was down 3.15% or 0.650 points to 20.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 146 to 68 and 42 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.01% or 0.20 to $1357.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.96% or 0.58 to hit $61.18 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.44% or 0.28 to trade at $64.64 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.08% to 8.2000, while USD/PHP fell 0.16% to 52.009.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 88.60.