Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Services, Property and Industrials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 1.10%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO), which rose 1.67% or 1.80 points to trade at 109.80 at the close. Meanwhile, SM Investments Corp (PS:SM) added 0.52% or 3.500 points to end at 673.500 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 0.20% or 0.020 points to 10.180 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which fell 3.75% or 3.000 points to trade at 77.000 at the close. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 3.48% or 0.170 points to end at 4.720 and LT Group Inc (PS:LTG) was down 3.41% or 0.540 points to 15.300.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 118 to 65 and 45 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.28% or 3.70 to $1329.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.30% or 0.62 to hit $47.21 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.39% or 0.69 to trade at $49.12 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.29% to 7.2666, while USD/PHP rose 0.27% to 48.470.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.23% at 95.65.