Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Holding Firms and Property sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.60%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP), which rose 2.15% or 26.00 points to trade at 1237.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB) added 2.05% or 5.00 points to end at 249.00 and Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) was up 1.73% or 0.450 points to 26.500 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC), which fell 5.11% or 2.35 points to trade at 43.60 at the close. JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS) declined 4.75% or 3.700 points to end at 74.250 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was down 2.70% or 0.280 points to 10.100.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 105 to 91 and 50 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.23% or 2.88 to $1279.68 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.32% or 0.16 to hit $50.14 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.66% or 0.37 to trade at $56.17 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.05% to 7.6680, while USD/PHP rose 0.02% to 51.000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 93.28.