{"id":181290,"date":"2018-09-12T22:48:39","date_gmt":"2018-09-13T02:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=181290"},"modified":"2025-01-08T23:55:35","modified_gmt":"2025-01-09T04:55:35","slug":"trade-tensions-continue-dampen-local-markets-performance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2018\/09\/12\/trade-tensions-continue-dampen-local-markets-performance\/","title":{"rendered":"Trade tensions continue to dampen local markets&#8217; performance"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_128657\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-128657\" style=\"width: 960px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peso-2169915_960_720.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-128657\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peso-2169915_960_720.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"960\" height=\"640\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peso-2169915_960_720.jpg 960w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peso-2169915_960_720-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/11\/peso-2169915_960_720-768x512.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 960px) 100vw, 960px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-128657\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The local currency ended Wednesday at 54.13, its weakest after the 54.155 on December 2, 2005. It shed Php0.19 from its 53.94 close a day ago. (Pixabay photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; External developments continue to contribute to the weakness of both the Philippine peso, which fell to its weakest since December 2005, and the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi).<\/p>\n<p>The local currency ended Wednesday at 54.13, its weakest after the 54.155 on December 2, 2005. It shed Php0.19 from its 53.94 close a day ago.<\/p>\n<p>A trader said trade tensions continue to scare investors, thus, the choice for safe haven assets like the US dollar.<\/p>\n<p>For the day, the peso opened at 53.9, little changed from the 53.94 a day ago.<\/p>\n<p>It traded between 53.89 and 54.14, resulting to an average of 54.009.<\/p>\n<p>Volume reached USD772.5 million, higher than the USD434.1 million in the previous session.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) further gave up 0.92 percent, or 68.81 points, to 7,449.20 points.<\/p>\n<p>All Shares followed after it declined by 0.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy cymbalta online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/cymbalta.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/cymbalta.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>44 percent, or 20.12 points, to 4,577.16 points.<\/p>\n<p>It was a mix between the sectors but most mirrored the main gauge, with the Industrial down by 1.75 percent and was followed by the Financials, 1.42 percent; Holding Firms, 1.11 percent; and Property, 0.17 percent.<\/p>\n<p>On the other hand, Mining and Oil and Services rose by 1.46 percent and 0.31 percent, respectively.<\/p>\n<p>Volume reached 1.17 billion shares amounting to PHP5.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy lexapro online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/lexapro.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/lexapro.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p>67 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Decliners led advancers at 101 to 83 while 56 shares were unchanged.<\/p>\n<p>Landbank market economist Guian Angelo S. Dumalagan said renewed trade tensions soured investors&#8217; sentiment after China formally sought the World Trade Organization&#8217;s (WTO) permission to levy tariff amounting to USD7 billion a year against the US.<\/p>\n<p>Adding to the bad news was the rise in crude oil prices due to impact of hurricanes entering the US and the Gulf of Mexico.<\/p>\n<div style=\"position:absolute;left:-99195px;\"> buy celexa online <a href=\"https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/celexa.html\">https:\/\/waynegeneralhospital.org\/home-health\/html\/celexa.html<\/a> no prescription pharmacy <\/div>\n<p> The price of West Texas Intermediate (WTI) rose 2.9 percent as Hurricane Florence hammered US\u2019 East Coast.<\/p>\n<p>This was aggravated by the prospect of further supply reduction following US sanctions on Iran, which will limit the Middle Eastern country\u2019s oil export.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; External developments continue to contribute to the weakness of both the Philippine peso, which fell to its weakest since &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":128657,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-181290","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","category-stock-markets","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181290","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=181290"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181290\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":281337,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/181290\/revisions\/281337"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/128657"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=181290"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=181290"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=181290"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}