Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Property, Industrials and Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.36%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Emperador Inc (PS:EMP), which rose 2.80% or 0.200 points to trade at 7.350 at the close. Meanwhile, Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI) added 2.13% or 0.300 points to end at 14.400 and Ayala Corp (PS:AC) was up 1.60% or 13.50 points to 855.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were San Miguel Corp (PS:SMC), which fell 1.81% or 1.90 points to trade at 103.00 at the close. Universal Robina Corp (PS:URC) declined 1.79% or 3.00 points to end at 165.00 and LT Group Inc (PS:LTG) was down 1.34% or 0.200 points to 14.700.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 102 to 98 and 47 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.61% or 7.63 to $1253.43 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.26% or 0.11 to hit $42.42 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.22% or 0.10 to trade at $44.72 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.04% to 7.3695, while USD/PHP rose 0.12% to 50.355.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 97.22.