Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Holding Firms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.47%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB), which rose 3.28% or 8.00 points to trade at 252.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Universal Robina Corp (PS:URC) added 2.51% or 3.50 points to end at 143.00 and Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) was up 1.88% or 0.450 points to 24.450 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc (PS:AEV), which fell 2.60% or 1.950 points to trade at 73.000 at the close. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 2.45% or 0.120 points to end at 4.780 and SM Prime Holdings Inc (PS:SMPH) was down 2.17% or 0.750 points to 33.850.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 144 to 53 and 52 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.32% or 4.17 to $1294.27 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.97% or 0.47 to hit $48.12 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.94% or 0.49 to trade at $51.41 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.20% to 7.6503, while USD/PHP rose 0.37% to 50.980.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 93.33.