{"id":125519,"date":"2017-10-21T03:39:50","date_gmt":"2017-10-21T07:39:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=125519"},"modified":"2017-10-21T03:39:50","modified_gmt":"2017-10-21T07:39:50","slug":"peso-slightly-up-vs-usd-psei-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2017\/10\/21\/peso-slightly-up-vs-usd-psei-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Peso slightly up vs USD; PSEi down"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><figure id=\"attachment_86485\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-86485\" style=\"width: 640px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/psei.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-86485\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/psei.jpg\" alt=\"FILE: The local unit opened the day sideways at 51.48 from 51.43 a day ago. It traded between 51.57 and 51.44, averaging 51.507. (Photo by Katrina.Tuliao (https:\/\/www.tradergroup.org) [CC BY 2.0)\" width=\"640\" height=\"480\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/psei.jpg 640w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/01\/psei-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 640px) 100vw, 640px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-86485\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">FILE: The local unit opened the day sideways at 51.48 from 51.43 a day ago. It traded between 51.57 and 51.44, averaging 51.507.<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/commons.wikimedia.org\/wiki\/File%3APhilippine-stock-market-board.jpg\">(Photo by Katrina.Tuliao (https:\/\/www.tradergroup.org) [CC BY 2.0)<\/a><\/figcaption><\/figure>MANILA \u2014 The Philippine peso regained strength Friday while the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) finished in the red after recovering a day ago.<\/p>\n<p>A trader said the local currency finished at 51.45 from the previous day\u2019s 51.53 against the US dollar as the market took a wait-and-see stance ahead of US President Donald Trump\u2019s announcement of the successor of Federal Reserve chair Janet Yellen, whose term ends in February 2018.<\/p>\n<p>The local unit opened the day sideways at 51.48 from 51.43 a day ago. It traded between 51.57 and 51.44, averaging 51.507.<\/p>\n<p>A total of USD519.1 million changed hands, lower than Thursday\u2019s USD565.7 million.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, the main stocks ended the week with a 0.78-percent, or 66.42-point, drop to 8,420.95 points.<\/p>\n<p>All the other indices followed, with All Shares down by 0.74 percent, or 36.68 points, to 4,913.79 points.<\/p>\n<p>The sectors were led by Mining and Oil, which fell 1.83 percent, followed by Industrial, 1.01 percent; Financials, 0.93 percent; Property, 0.81 percent; Holding Firms, 0.61 percent; and Services, 0.12 percent.<\/p>\n<p>Volume reached 906.29 million shares amounting to PHP10.17 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Losers surpassed gainers at 124 to 72 while 49 shares were unchanged.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA \u2014 The Philippine peso regained strength Friday while the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) finished in the red after &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":86485,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,95],"tags":[28888,15398,21171],"class_list":["post-125519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-news-ph","tag-peso-slightly-up-vs-usd-psei-down","tag-philippine-peso","tag-philippine-stock-exchange-index-psei","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/33"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=125519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/125519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/86485"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=125519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=125519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=125519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}