Philippine shares finished lower on Friday as investors booked profits for a second day, taking their cue from a global selloff in the wake of Wall Street’s steep fall overnight.

The market was down on “continued profit-taking, tracing overseas trends,” Freya Natividad, analyst at Papa Securities Corp., said in a text message.

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