Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Banking & Financials, Services and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP), which rose 3.44% or 40.00 points to trade at 1202.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Ayala Corp (PS:AC) added 2.18% or 19.00 points to end at 892.00 and Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) was up 1.85% or 0.750 points to 41.300 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co (PS:MBT), which fell 3.85% or 3.40 points to trade at 85.00 at the close. Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI) declined 3.79% or 0.580 points to end at 14.740 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was down 3.61% or 0.400 points to 10.680.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 110 to 76 and 57 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.37% or 4.70 to $1262.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 2.01% or 0.97 to hit $47.39 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.94% or 0.98 to trade at $49.65 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.62% to 7.2675, while USD/PHP fell 0.55% to 49.521.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 97.13.