{"id":278648,"date":"2020-12-15T01:05:45","date_gmt":"2020-12-15T06:05:45","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/?p=278648"},"modified":"2020-12-15T01:05:45","modified_gmt":"2020-12-15T06:05:45","slug":"stocks-rise-peso-ends-flat-vs-dollar","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/2020\/12\/15\/stocks-rise-peso-ends-flat-vs-dollar\/","title":{"rendered":"Stocks rise; peso ends flat vs. dollar"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_171699\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-171699\" style=\"width: 1920px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/business-1730089_1920.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-full wp-image-171699\" src=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/business-1730089_1920.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"1920\" height=\"1280\" srcset=\"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/business-1730089_1920.jpg 1920w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/business-1730089_1920-300x200.jpg 300w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/business-1730089_1920-768x512.jpg 768w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/business-1730089_1920-1024x683.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/07\/business-1730089_1920-20x13.jpg 20w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1920px) 100vw, 1920px\" \/><\/a><figcaption id=\"caption-attachment-171699\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">All Shares increased by 0.46 percent, or 19.78 points, to 4,338.51 points. (Pixabay Photo)<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><strong>MANILA<\/strong>\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) rose Monday while the peso ended the day sideways against the US dollar partly on hopes for the stimulus program in the US.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The main equities index inched up by 0.49 percent, or 35.19 points, to 7,281.35 points.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">All Shares increased by 0.46 percent, or 19.78 points, to 4,338.51 points.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Most of the sectoral counters tracked the main gauge, led by Financials, which jumped by 1.59 percent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Mining and Oil followed after rising by 1.13 percent, Industrial by 1.07 percent, Services by 0.57 percent, and Holding Firms by 0.50 percent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The Property sector was the sole loser for the day after it lost 0.76 percent.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Volume totaled 46.02 billion shares amounting to PHP8.9 billion.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Gainers led losers at 134 to 75, while 58 shares were unchanged.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">\u201cThe PSEi kickstarted the week as investors made bets ahead (of) additional fiscal stimulus, the BSP meeting on Thursday, and the continued Christmas rally,\u201d Luis Limlingan, Regina Capital Development Corporation head of sales, said.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Meanwhile, the peso ended the day sideways against the greenback at 48.05 from 48.07 Friday last week.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">It opened the day at 48.1 and traded between 48.1 and 48.04.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">The average level for the day stood at 48.054.<\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\"><\/div>\n<div dir=\"auto\">Volume totaled USD358.8 million, lower than the previous session\u2019s USD540.85 million.<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MANILA\u00a0\u2013 The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) rose Monday while the peso ended the day sideways against the US dollar &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":33,"featured_media":227958,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-278648","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-business","mauthors-joann-villanueva","mauthors-philippine-news-agency"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278648","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=278648"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278648\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":278657,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278648\/revisions\/278657"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/227958"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278648"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278648"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/canadianinquirer.net\/v1\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278648"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}