{"id":263945,"date":"2020-08-03T22:37:12","date_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:37:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=263945"},"modified":"2020-08-03T22:38:04","modified_gmt":"2020-08-04T02:38:04","slug":"peso-ends-sideways-stocks-index-down","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/08\/03\/peso-ends-sideways-stocks-index-down\/","title":{"rendered":"Peso ends sideways, stocks index down"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_263952\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-263952\" style=\"width: 415px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/peso-flat-stocks-down.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-263952\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/peso-flat-stocks-down.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"415\" height=\"260\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/peso-flat-stocks-down.jpg 415w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/08\/peso-flat-stocks-down-300x188.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 415px) 100vw, 415px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-263952\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">The peso ended Monday sideways against the US dollar while the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ended in the negative territory primarily on worries on the continued rise of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections worldwide. (PNA Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The peso ended Monday sideways against the US dollar while the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ended in the negative territory primarily on worries on the continued rise of coronavirus disease 2019 (Covid-19) infections worldwide.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The main equities index slipped anew after it shed 3.59 percent, or 212.53 points, to 5,715.92 points.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">All Shares contracted by 2.91 percent, or 101.81 points, to 3,398.46 points.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">All the sectoral indices also finished the day\u2019s trade on the red, led by the Property declining by 5.12 percent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It was trailed by the Financials, 3.74 percent; Holding Firms, 3.46 percent; Services, 2.19 percent; Mining and Oil, 1.93 percent; and Industrial, 1.64 percent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Volume totaled 1.63 billion shares amounting to PHP6.586 billion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Losers led gainers at 154 to 51, while 39 shares were unchanged.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cShares closed much lower to kick off August, after weighed down (by) the sudden shift back to MECQ (modified enhanced community quarantine), disappointing global economic data and a lack of progress on Capitol Hill toward another coronavirus aid package,\u201d Luis Limlingan, Regina Capital Development Corporation head of sales, said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The National Capital Region (NCR) along with Bulacan, Laguna, Cavite and Rizal will be placed under a 15-day MECQ starting 12 midnight of August 4 until August 18 after medical practitioners asked for a timeout to rest and to study another strategy how to fight the rising coronavirus disease (Covid-19) infections.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile, the local currency finished the trade at 49.095 from its 49.15 close Thursday last week.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">There was no trading on July 31 due to a holiday in line with Muslims\u2019 observance of Eid\u2019l Adha (Feast of Sacrifice).<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The local currency opened the day at 49.15 and traded between 49.185 and 49.07.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Average level for the day stood at 49.104.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Volume totaled to USD568.65 million.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The peso ended Monday sideways against the US dollar while the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) ended in the &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":44,"featured_media":263952,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19,43],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-263945","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\/263945","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=263945"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263945\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":263953,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/263945\/revisions\/263953"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/263952"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=263945"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=263945"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=263945"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}