The broader All Shares followed with a 19.26-point or 0.53-percent gain to 3,675.01.
Michael Ricafort, chief economist at Rizal Commercial Banking Corp., said the peso-dollar rate had corrected on news that unemployment, while up marginally from December, was still nearly a 17-year low.
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