Traders and investors alike are currently fearful of the current market situation. The Blue chip index opened with a gapped down measure and dropped again by as much as 2.7% during the trading hours causing sell off shares from the market.

 It managed to comeback up but still reeling from a loss of 1.5%. The market has been very cautious for the past few days of trading and majority of the stocks are nearing the oversold region. Blue chip stocks were sold off today

1. BLOOM-5.74%

2. RLC-4.84%

3. DMC-4.19%

4. ALI-3.94%

5. MBT-3.56%

6. AC-3.31%

7. MPI-3.17%

8. ICT-2.99%

9. SMPH-2.72%

10. AEV-2.46%

11. SECB-1.75%

Prevailing news coming from OCTA research group cautioning the government to implement again heightened restrictions, as it fears resurgence of the Delta Variant in National capital region. According to the independent research group,

“The surge could be comparable to the March surge pero, we think that the level of vaccination will help mitigate the surge,” “There is no surge yet. We’re projecting that if the Delta variant is able to come in the region, the surge that we might see could be comparable to the March surge.” OCTA Research fellow Guido David said during online briefing.

“Makakatulong sila against severe infection of the coronavirus. Pero pwede tayong maging carrier. Kailangang proteksyunan ‘yung di pa vaccinated so dapat sumunod sa health protocols”

Foreigners became net sellers with a traded net foreign value of -362.2M

Major Asian indexes are reflecting same sentiment

The new Delta variant is causing a Stock Market Scare during trading hours, which resulted to significant drop on index and individual stocks.

The PSEI index opened up higher than the previous close but suddenly started to weigh down as the news for the results of the delta variant came out from the Department of Health

The Philippines has recorded 16 new cases of the highly contagious Delta coronavirus variant, including 11 locally transmitted cases.

According to Health Undersecretary Maria Rosario Vergeire virtual briefing,

“One case was tagged as death after being rushed to the emergency room of a hospital on June 28. The other case is an outpatient with an onset date of June 23 who was tagged as recovered already,” 

Two of the new cases came from came from Overseas Filipino Workers from Qatar when they arrived last June 15 and have already recovered

The index succumb with a net foreign selling of -940M, index was push down further with the big cap stocks joining the rout.

GTCAP-5.19%

BLOOM-4.87%

SMC-4.16%

RRHI-3.64%

SM-3.43%

SECB-2.48%

The market is pricing in the negative effect of the first local transmission with the expectation on upsurge of cases if not contained.