{"id":198367,"date":"2019-01-19T03:02:46","date_gmt":"2019-01-19T08:02:46","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=198367"},"modified":"2019-01-19T03:02:46","modified_gmt":"2019-01-19T08:02:46","slug":"psei-retakes-8000-pt-level-peso-loses-at-trading-weeks-end","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2019\/01\/19\/psei-retakes-8000-pt-level-peso-loses-at-trading-weeks-end\/","title":{"rendered":"PSEi retakes 8,000-pt level, peso loses at trading week&#8217;s end"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_60246\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-60246\" style=\"width: 1000px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_233280757.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-60246\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_233280757.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1000\" height=\"667\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_233280757.jpg 1000w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/shutterstock_233280757-300x200.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1000px) 100vw, 1000px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-60246\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) closed the week at 8,047.12 points, up by 119.92 points or 1.51 percent. (Shutterstock Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0&#8212; The local stock market once again hit the 8,000-point level, reportedly inspired by a healthy United States market, which gained for three straight days.<\/p>\n<p>The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) closed the week at 8,047.12 points, up by 119.92 points or 1.51 percent.<\/p>\n<p>All shares also increased by 61.08 points or 1.29 percent to 4,804.92 points.<br \/>\n\u201cThe Wall Street Journal reported that the Trump administration was debating whether to ease tariffs on Chinese imports in a bid to calm markets and ease tensions with Beijing,\u201d Regina Capital managing director Luis Limlingan said.<\/p>\n<p>Limlingan cited that Dow Jones Industrial Average went up by 162.94 points, S&amp;P 500 Index increased by 19.86 points, and Nasdaq Composite Index rose 49.77 points.<\/p>\n<p>All counters ended in the green on Friday\u2019s trading.<\/p>\n<p>Total value of trade amounted to PHP8.44 billion.<\/p>\n<p>Meanwhile, the Philippine peso further weakened to 52.52 to a dollar, falling by 0.11 from Thursday\u2019s finish of 52.41.<\/p>\n<p>It opened the day already weak at 52.40 from last day\u2019s opening of 52.15, trading between 52.35 and 52.55. Weighted average on Friday settled at 52.45 to the greenback.<\/p>\n<p>Volume of trade this day reached USD807.22 million, lower than the USD932.22 million volume on Thursday.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0&#8212; The local stock market once again hit the 8,000-point level, reportedly inspired by a healthy United States market, which &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":60246,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-198367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-kris-crismundo","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198367","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\/44"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=198367"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/198367\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/60246"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=198367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=198367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=198367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}