Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Banking & Financials, Holding Firms and Mining & Oil sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite added 1.48%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO), which rose 5.06% or 6.60 points to trade at 137.00 at the close. Meanwhile, DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC) added 4.98% or 0.540 points to end at 11.380 and Universal Robina Corp (PS:URC) was up 3.51% or 4.40 points to 129.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were PLDT Inc (PS:TEL), which fell 1.75% or 23.00 points to trade at 1291.00 at the close. Aboitiz Power Corp (PS:AP) declined 1.67% or 0.65 points to end at 38.35 and San Miguel Corp (PS:SMC) was down 0.63% or 0.90 points to 141.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 119 to 75 and 45 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.02% or 0.30 to $1301.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.29% or 0.19 to hit $64.92 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.45% or 0.34 to trade at $75.70 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.40% to 8.2106, while USD/PHP rose 0.08% to 52.501.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.32% at 93.31.