PH Stocks End First Trading Day of 2014 in the Green

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Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks were up in the first trading day of the year, lifted by the seasonal “January effect”.

The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) rose by 1.6% or 94.43 points to close today’s session at 5,984.26 – the fifth straight trading session of growth.

All counters also finished on strong note, with the Mining and Oil index gaining 2.29%, followed closely by the Financials, which edged higher by 2.28%. The Industrials went up by 2.19%, while the wider All Shares index posted a 1.23% increase.

Trading, however, was slow, as most investors are still on their holidays. Value turnover today, 2 January 2014, reached only PhP3.82 billion on 480.7 million shares traded. There were 105 gainers against 36 losers, while 34 stocks remained flat.

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