The Philippine Stock Market - October 6, 2009

Dow Jones Industrial Average (DJIA) Summary
Index Value: 9,599.75
Trade Time: Oct 5
Change: Up 112.08 (+1.18%)
Prev Close: 9,487.67
Open: 9,488.73
Day's Range: 9,481.09 - 9,625.06

The local equities market opened very strong and ended higher more than 2.0% as WallStreet advanced more than a hundred points. The Philippine Stock Exchange Index (PSEi) closed at its high and is is now within sight of the 2900 level.

PSEi previous close - 2819.48 (Oct. 05)

open: 2855.65 (+36.17)
high / close: 2884.46 (+64.98 or +2.30%)

Advancers 90
Decliners 17
Unchanged 55

Value turnover: PhP 21.672 bn (see Block Sales)
Cross transactions: PhP 1.219 bn
Block Sales: 144,385,750 shs MER @ PhP 126.00 = PhP 18.192 bn
----------------3,962,890 shs MER @ PhP 231.45 = PhP 917.218 mn

Sectoral Indices were up across-the-board:
Services +2.88%
Industrial +2.86%
M-O +2.75%
Property +2.53%
Holdings +0.77%
Financial +0.66%

The Day's Top Gainers:
CPM***: PhP 1.50; +50.00%
NI: PhP 3.95; +49.06%
MII: PhP 3.10; +27.05%

*** Century Peak Metals Holdings - was Listed By Way of Introduction today.

The Day's Biggest Decliners:
WEB: PhP 12.50; -16.67%
IRC: PhP 0.60; -14.29%
ALHI: PhP 7.50; -6.25%

At mid-day:
Asian equities markets were mostly higher.
The Philippine Peso continue to be stronger and was at PhP 46.532 vs US$ 1.00.


CLOSING PRICES OF SELECT STOCKS (as of October 06, 2009):
ABA: PhP 0.91
AGI: PhP 4.85
CYBR: PhP 0.52
DGTL: PhP 1.42
EDC: PhP 4.75
EIBA: PHP 0.26
GEO: PhP 0.86
GOB: PhP 0.17
JOH: PhP 1.50
MPI: PhP 3.30
MUSX: PhP 0.115
PX: PhP 8.70
SFI: PhP 0.16
SPH: PhP 3.15
SUN: PhP 0.40
TA: PhP 1.14
UW: PhP 0.105