PH Stocks Rebound; PSEi Close Shy of 7,000
Manila—(PHStocks)—Philippine stocks recovered today, 15 October, after three days of declines. The benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) index closed 0.65% higher or 45.13 points to 6,991.19 after breaching the 7,000-mark early in the session.
All counters were back in the green, led by the Mining and Oil (1.41%) and Property (1.15%) sectors. The Services index went up by 0.91%. The All-Shares index was 0.54% higher to 4,158.29.
Trading was heavy on bargain hunting. Volume reached 15.4 billion, valued at PhP12.52 billion. Foreign buying totaled PhP4.91 billion while foreign selling reached PhP4.69 billion, for a net buy of PhP220 million.
Top most active:
- Philippine Long Distance Telephone Co. (PSE: TEL): PhP3,074.00, 1.72%
- Ayala Land Inc. (PSE: ALI): PhP32.50, 2.85%
- Universal Robina Corp. (PSE: URC): PhP178.00, 2.53%
- GT Capital Holdings Inc. (PSE: GTCAP): PhP1,050.00, 0.19%
- Metropolitan Bank & Trust Co. (PSE: MBT): PhP83.00, -0.24%
Top gainers:
- Minerales Industrias Corp. (PSE: MIC): PhP5.49, 20.66%
- Leisure and Resorts World Corp. Warrants (PSE: LRW): PhP2.68, 20.18%
- Euro-Med Laboratories Philippines Inc. (PSE: EURO): PhP1.92, 14.97%
- Asia Amalgamated Holdings (PSE: AAA): PhP1.83, 10.91%
- Forum Pacific Inc. (PSE: FPI): PhP0.325, 10.17%
- Federal Resources Investment Group Inc. (PSE: FED): PhP14.00, 7.86%
- IP E-Game Ventures Inc. (PSE: EG): PhP0.015, 7.14%
- Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corp. “B” (PSE: OPMB): PhP0.017, 6.25%
- Southeast Asia Cement Holdings Inc. (PSE: CMT): PhP2.23, 6.19%
- Ginebra San Miguel Inc. (PSE: GSMI): PhP16.98, 6.13%
Top decliners:
- Abra Mining & Industrial Corp. (PSE: AR): PhP0.0068, -8.11%
- Oriental Petroleum and Minerals Corp. “A” (PSE: OPM): PhP0.015, -6.25%
- Yehey! Corp. (PSE: YEHEY): PhP1.17, -5.65%
- National Reinsurance Corporation of the Philippines (PSE: NRCP): PhP1.21, -5.47%
- Apex Mining Co. Inc. (PSE: APX): PhP3.50, -5.41%
- Lodestar Investment Holdings Corp. (PSE: LIHC): PhP0.62, -4.62%
- Sun Life Financial Inc. (PSE: SLF): PhP1,490.00, -3.87%
- A Brown Company Inc. (PSE: BRN): PhP1.16, -3.33%
- Benguet Corp. “B” (PSE: BCB): PhP8.70, -3.33%
- The Philodrill Corp. (PSE: OV): PhP0.03, -3.23%