Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Property and Holding Firms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 0.64%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Petron (PS:PCOR), which rose 3.51% or 0.340 points to trade at 10.020 at the close. Meanwhile, Semirara Minin (PS:SCC) added 3.16% or 5.0000 points to end at 163.0000 and Energy Develop (PS:EDC) was up 2.82% or 0.220 points to 8.020 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bloomberry Res (PS:BLOOM), which fell 5.66% or 0.600 points to trade at 10.000 at the close. Philex Mining (PS:PX) declined 0.72% or 0.050 points to end at 6.930 and San Miguel Cor (PS:SMC) was down 0.67% or 0.450 points to 66.500.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 105 to 77 and 23 ended unchanged.
Gold for June delivery was down 0.59% or 7.20 to $1218.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.49% or 0.29 to hit $59.59 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.19% or 0.13 to trade at $66.57 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.30% to 7.1598, while USD/PHP fell 0.21% to 44.439.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.33% at 93.71.