Wall Street helps PH shares to end the week in green

THE local stock market ended the week on a positive note after Wall Street had its largest gain in one day, fueled by the US’ satisfactory job data.

“For Friday, we followed the Wall Street advance. They had their biggest one day advance due to better employment data, private employment report, which both showed solid results although lesser than target,” Abbygayle Estrella, AB Capital Securities Inc. analyst, said in a phone interview.