Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Holding Firms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.19%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were PLDT Inc (PS:TEL), which rose 2.83% or 41.00 points to trade at 1491.00 at the close. Meanwhile, International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) added 2.44% or 2.500 points to end at 105.000 and Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co (PS:MBT) was up 2.32% or 2.15 points to 94.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC), which fell 5.05% or 1.150 points to trade at 21.600 at the close. Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) declined 2.62% or 0.250 points to end at 9.300 and DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC) was down 2.50% or 0.360 points to 14.040.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 95 to 90 and 58 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.44% or 5.60 to $1270.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.16% or 0.09 to hit $57.53 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.03% or 0.02 to trade at $62.88 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.22% to 7.6682, while USD/PHP rose 0.16% to 50.720.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.08% at 93.34.