Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Monday, as gains in the Banking & Financials, Property and Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 0.30%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which rose 4.52% or 2.900 points to trade at 67.000 at the close. Meanwhile, Bank of the Philippine Islands (PS:BPI) added 1.66% or 1.60 points to end at 97.70 and DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC) was up 1.57% or 0.200 points to 12.900 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Aboitiz Power Corp (PS:AP), which fell 3.29% or 1.50 points to trade at 44.05 at the close. First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) declined 2.11% or 0.55 points to end at 25.50 and Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) was down 1.58% or 36.000 points to 2246.000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 113 to 81 and 44 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.68% or 9.00 to $1322.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.36% or 0.16 to hit $44.03 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.26% or 0.12 to trade at $45.97 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.05% to 7.0574, while USD/PHP rose 0.15% to 47.160.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.01% at 97.40.