Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Holding Firms, Banking & Financials and Services sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 1.03%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC), which rose 1.84% or 0.450 points to trade at 24.950 at the close. Meanwhile, First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) added 1.39% or 0.26 points to end at 19.00 and Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC) was up 1.33% or 2.10 points to 159.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP), which fell 3.15% or 39.00 points to trade at 1200.00 at the close. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 3.08% or 0.140 points to end at 4.410 and SM Investments Corp (PS:SM) was down 3.06% or 24.50 points to 775.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 107 to 89 and 50 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.20% or 2.56 to $1257.16 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.61% or 0.27 to hit $44.73 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.83% or 0.39 to trade at $47.31 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.10% to 7.3307, while USD/PHP rose 0.76% to 49.946.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 97.38.