Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Property, Services and Mining & Oil sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite added 1.69%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG), which rose 5.62% or 0.260 points to trade at 4.890 at the close. Meanwhile, International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) added 4.58% or 3.500 points to end at 80.000 and SM Prime Holdings Inc (PS:SMPH) was up 4.53% or 1.250 points to 28.850 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM), which fell 4.27% or 0.210 points to trade at 4.710 at the close. Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI) declined 0.62% or 0.100 points to end at 16.000 and San Miguel Corp (PS:SMC) was down 0.61% or 0.500 points to 81.500.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 119 to 69 and 49 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.09% or 1.15 to $1324.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.74% or 0.35 to hit $46.70 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.26% or 0.62 to trade at $48.62 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.14% to 7.2434, while USD/PHP rose 0.10% to 48.321.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.16% at 95.46.