Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Services, Industrials and Property sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI), which rose 3.38% or 0.480 points to trade at 14.700 at the close. Meanwhile, Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) added 1.35% or 0.090 points to end at 6.760 and First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) was up 1.03% or 0.18 points to 17.74 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Petron Corp (PS:PCOR), which fell 1.90% or 0.200 points to trade at 10.340 at the close. Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) declined 1.77% or 36.00 points to end at 2000.00 and LT Group Inc (PS:LTG) was down 1.69% or 0.300 points to 17.500.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 100 to 91 and 54 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.63% or 8.53 to $1358.83 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.08% or 0.04 to hit $49.05 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.46% or 0.25 to trade at $54.74 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.82% to 7.8734, while USD/PHP fell 0.16% to 50.865.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 91.23.