Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Property and Holding Firms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 1.04%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were LT Group Inc (PS:LTG), which rose 3.45% or 0.500 points to trade at 15.000 at the close. Meanwhile, First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) added 1.65% or 0.35 points to end at 21.55 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 1.47% or 0.130 points to 9.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC), which fell 5.37% or 8.0000 points to trade at 141.0000 at the close. Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) declined 2.44% or 0.900 points to end at 36.050 and Ayala Corp (PS:AC) was down 1.96% or 16.000 points to 801.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 112 to 72 and 51 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.31% or 3.85 to $1255.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.48% or 0.26 to hit $54.19 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.53% or 0.30 to trade at $56.28 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.18% to 7.3009, while USD/PHP fell 0.06% to 50.180.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 100.86.