Philippine shares rose on Friday with the benchmark index finally going past the 6,600-point resistance level, fueled the 7.8-percent economic growth of China in the third quarter of this year.

Jun Calaycay, Accord Capital Equities Corp. analyst, said that Asian markets kicked of the week’s closing trades rather tepidly on the upside, with the China and Hong Kong markets surging on the back of numbers hinting at a pick-up in the world’s second-largest economy.

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