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2012 PSE index (PSEi): Cebu Pacific out, Petron in

Those holding Cebu Pacific (CEB) stocks are probably wondering what’s causing the stock to plummet during the past trading days. In just one week, the stock price of budget airline Cebu Pacific has declined by 9.3%, closing at P61.40 in last Friday’s (August 24) trading.

It’s actually been a losing battle for CEB stockholders since the company’s hyped initial public offering (IPO) in 2010. On its first trading day on the Philippine Stock Exchange (PSE) in October 2010, Cebu Pacific rose to P133.00 from its IPO price of P125.00. Unfortunately, the stock has not recovered from that all-time high price. It even ended the year 2011 at half the price, closing at P64.80 on the last trading day.

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Top Gainers and Losers – World Stock Market Index (2012 1H)

As Europe finds itself being stuck in bigger economic turmoil, investors are moving out of the Eurozone and dumping their money in emerging markets where risks are relatively lower but with yields that are more promising.

Benefiting from the outflow of investors’ cash in problem-laden North America and Europe are emerging markets such as Venezuela, Pakistan, Turkey, the Philippines, and Estonia whose stock markets posed the highest returns during the first six months of 2012.

Below is a complete list of the year-to-date performance of stock markets around the world.

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PSE leaps to another all-time high (July 2012)

Philippine stocks closed at another high note today, ending at a new all-time high of 5,365.70 points, up 1.24% from yesterday’s close. Advancers easily outnumbered decliners, 122 to 52, with 33 stocks unchanged. A total of 1.75 billion shares were traded, valued at P7 trillion.

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Philippine stocks reach new all-time high (April 26, 2012)

The bullish trend in Philippine stocks continued today as the benchmark Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) closed at a new all-time high level of 5,218.97.

The index rose 14.14 points or 0.27% from yesterday’s trading primarily due to the upbeat performance of Wall Street hours earlier and optimism over a possible gas find by Philex Mining Corporation (PX) the country’s largest mining company.

Decliners outnumbered gainers, 102 to 79, with more than 5.405 billion shares valued at P7.616 billion traded in today’s transactions.

Today’s highest gaining stocks are as follows:

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Philippine Stocks 2011: Top 10 Gainers and Losers

As promised, here now is the list of the best- and worst-performing Philippine stocks in 2011.

Last week, we posted the top 10 stocks belonging to the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) with the biggest gains and losses. That list sampled only 30 companies comprising the PSEi but in our new list below, we looked at all stocks traded on the PSE. We compared each stock’s closing price on December 27, 2010 with their stock price one year later (December 28, 2011). Stocks were then ranked based on this 1-year return.

As promised, here now is the list of the best- and worst-performing Philippine stocks in 2011.

Last week, we posted the top 10 stocks belonging to the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) with the biggest gains and losses. That list sampled only 30 companies comprising the PSEi but in our new list below, we looked at all stocks traded on the PSE. We compared each stock’s closing price on December 27, 2010 with their stock price one year later (December 28, 2011). Stocks were then ranked based on this 1-year return.

As promised, here now is the list of the best- and worst-performing Philippine stocks in 2011.

Last week, we posted the top 10 stocks belonging to the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) with the biggest gains and losses. That list sampled only 30 companies comprising the PSEi but in our new list below, we looked at all stocks traded on the PSE. We compared each stock’s closing price on December 27, 2010 with their stock price one year later (December 28, 2011). Stocks were then ranked based on this 1-year return.

As promised, here now is the list of the best- and worst-performing Philippine stocks in 2011.

Last week, we posted the top 10 stocks belonging to the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) with the biggest gains and losses. That list sampled only 30 companies comprising the PSEi but in our new list below, we looked at all stocks traded on the PSE. We compared each stock’s closing price on December 27, 2010 with their stock price one year later (December 28, 2011). Stocks were then ranked based on this 1-year return.

As promised, here now is the list of the best- and worst-performing Philippine stocks in 2011.

Last week, we posted the top 10 stocks belonging to the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) with the biggest gains and losses. That list sampled only 30 companies comprising the PSEi but in our new list below, we looked at all stocks traded on the PSE. We compared each stock’s closing price on December 27, 2010 with their stock price one year later (December 28, 2011). Stocks were then ranked based on this 1-year return.

As promised, here now is the list of the best- and worst-performing Philippine stocks in 2011.

Last week, we posted the top 10 stocks belonging to the Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi) with the biggest gains and losses. That list sampled only 30 companies comprising the PSEi but in our new list below, we looked at all stocks traded on the PSE. We compared each stock’s closing price on December 27, 2010 with their stock price one year later (December 28, 2011). Stocks were then ranked based on this 1-year return.

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Top 10 Best and Worst PSE index stocks (2011)

The year 2011 gave stock investors and stock traders a mix of highs and lows. The Philippine Stock Exchange index (PSEi), for one, booked a modest year-on-year gain of only 4.07% for the entire year 2011. This was in stark contrast with the PSEi’s 1-year return of 37.60% in 2010 and 63.00% in 2009.

But then again, this slight uptick seems to hide the tumultuous fluctuations in stock prices that occurred in the past year. Today, the last trading day of the year, the PSEi closed at 4,371.96. Compare this with the PSEi’s lowest level of the year of 3,705.18 recorded on February 28, 2011 and its all-time high level of 4,563.65 registered on August 2, 2011.

The same whirlwind of prices was seen in several individual stocks traded on the local bourse. We have summarized below the best- and worst-performing stocks comprising the PSE index, in terms of 1-year gain (or loss) in 2011.

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Zynga IPO: Stock price down 9.5% after 2 days

How low will the stock price of Zynga go? Or is an uptrend to finally happen today after two consecutive days of price declines?

That’s the $8.9 billion-question in the minds of investors who are wondering whether they made a mistake in buying Zynga shares (stock code: ZNGA) during its initial public offering (IPO) last week.

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