Philippine shares recovered from a bout of profit-taking in the previous day’s session and closed Thursday slightly higher as the market anticipated the release of more positive corporate earnings results for 2014 and its last quarter.

Investors focused on domestic factors in the absence of stronger leads from overseas, and took positions in companies expected to report strong profits for last year, analysts said.

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