Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Holding Firms, Mining & Oil and Banking & Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite declined 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Universal Robina Corp (PS:URC), which rose 2.52% or 4.000 points to trade at 163.000 at the close. Meanwhile, International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) added 1.54% or 1.150 points to end at 76.000 and Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) was up 1.54% or 0.550 points to 36.300 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC), which fell 3.48% or 0.900 points to trade at 24.950 at the close. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 3.39% or 0.130 points to end at 3.710 and GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP) was down 2.27% or 29.000 points to 1251.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 112 to 80 and 42 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.93% or 11.55 to $1225.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $52.99 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.05% or 0.03 to trade at $55.66 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.16% to 7.2568, while USD/PHP rose 0.05% to 49.905.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.20% at 100.86.