Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Banking & Financials and Holding Firms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 0.65%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO), which rose 3.38% or 5.00 points to trade at 153.00 at the close. Meanwhile, DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC) added 2.65% or 0.380 points to end at 14.700 and Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) was up 2.34% or 0.150 points to 6.550 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were PLDT Inc (PS:TEL), which fell 4.95% or 75.00 points to trade at 1440.00 at the close. Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) declined 3.98% or 70.00 points to end at 1690.00 and Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) was down 1.58% or 0.350 points to 21.850.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 113 to 82 and 42 ended unchanged.
Shares in BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO) rose to all time highs; up 3.38% or 5.00 to 153.00.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.26% or 3.30 to $1251.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.49% or 0.28 to hit $57.08 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.47% or 0.30 to trade at $63.10 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.26% to 7.6125, while USD/PHP fell 0.32% to 50.330.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 93.83.