Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Banking & Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM), which rose 5.18% or 0.230 points to trade at 4.670 at the close. Meanwhile, International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) added 1.89% or 1.500 points to end at 81.000 and Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) was up 1.67% or 0.120 points to 7.320 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO), which fell 3.31% or 65.000 points to trade at 1900.000 at the close. First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) declined 2.82% or 0.70 points to end at 24.15 and Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) was down 2.52% or 1.000 points to 38.750.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 92 to 90 and 55 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.18% or 2.25 to $1266.35 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.64% or 0.32 to hit $49.51 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.60% or 0.31 to trade at $51.55 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.02% to 7.2331, while USD/PHP fell 0.02% to 48.270.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 96.24.