Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Holding Firms and Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI), which rose 2.49% or 1.100 points to trade at 45.350 at the close. Meanwhile, Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) added 1.56% or 0.150 points to end at 9.750 and Jollibee Foods Corp (PS:JFC) was up 0.84% or 2.40 points to 287.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Emperador Inc (PS:EMP), which fell 3.19% or 0.260 points to trade at 7.900 at the close. International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) declined 2.38% or 2.700 points to end at 110.800 and Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc (PS:AEV) was down 2.02% or 1.550 points to 75.250.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 112 to 88 and 54 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.02% or 0.30 to $1342.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.37% or 0.24 to hit $64.97 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.16% or 0.11 to trade at $69.00 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.32% to 8.1939, while USD/PHP rose 0.43% to 51.587.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 88.90.