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MANILA, Philippines–The local stock index rallied to another historic high breaching the 5,300-mark on Thursday as optimism over first quarter local corporate earnings prevailed over the sluggish regional sentiment.
The main-share Philippine Stock Exchange index surged by 71.57 points or 1.37 percent to 5,300.41.
"Philippine equities continue to surge despite the lackluster performance of Asian markets. Investors remain sold on the country's growth story and that company earnings will likely come in as expected," said First Metro Securities president Gonzalo Ordonez.
"Valuations remain expensive but early first quarter results show higher odds of earnings catching up," Gonzalo added.
All counters contributed to the upswing but the sharpest gains were posted by the holding firm and property counters which respectively jumped by 2.54 percent and 1 percent.
Value turnover amounted to P9 billion. There were 83 advancers which edged out 79 decliners while 42 stocks were unchanged.
The index stocks that gained the most were AGI, PLDT, MPI, Philex, SM Prime, Metrobank, Ayala Corp., BDO, SMIC, JG Summit, ALI and DMCI.
AGI shares were up by about 3 percent. Tycoon Andrew Tan's holding firm reported that the four real estate brands of its property arm Megaworld Corp.
posted very strong reservation sales amounting to P 16.4 billion for the first quarter, up by 52 percent from a year ago.
Other non-index stocks that gained in heavy volume were Bloomberry, Security Bank and Philex Petroleum.
Fund managers said investors were loading up on local equities with a longer term view especially given rosier expectations for 2013.
It was reported on Thursday that Philippine economic managers were confident that the domestic economy could grow by 5-6 percent this year, faster than the 3.7 percent growth last year.
Trading was meek elsewhere in the region as risk appetite was tempered by concerns in the US and euro-zone economies.
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Platinum Games laments their mistakes with Bayonetta on PS3
Platinum Games has highlighted the flawed PS3 release of their highly lauded action game Bayonetta as their biggest failure so far.
The PS3 release of Bayonetta was plagued by slow loading times due to a very poor port from the flawless Xbox 360 version.
Studio director Atsushi Inaba said, "The biggest failure for Platinum so far, the one that really sticks in my mind, is that port. At the time we didn't really know how to develop on PS3 all that well, and whether we could have done it is irrelevant: we made the decision that we couldn't."
"But looking back on the result," he continued, "and especially what ended up being released to users, I regard that as our biggest failure. One thing I will say is that it wasn't a failure for nothing. We learned that we needed to take responsibility for everything. So on Vanquish we developed both versions in-house. We learned, so it wasnt a pointless failure, but it was a failure nonetheless."
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