Cebu Air plunges 38% after trading error by local broker

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Shares of the Philippines’ largest budget carrier plunged by a record, wiping out 21.3 billion pesos ($415 million) in market value, after a local broker made a trading error.

Cebu Air Inc. slumped 38% in the last few minutes of trading and the volume of shares changing hands was below the three-month average.“It was a trader error,” a representative at Quality Investment & Securities Corp., which executed the trade, said by phone.

“Our brokerage wasn’t meaning to sell Cebu Air shares.” Cebu Air CEO Lance Gokongwei said earlier in a text message that the share price drop was likely a fat-finger trade.A spokesperson for the Philippine Stock Exchange declined to comment. Cebu Air, which last month ordered 31 Airbus SE aircraft worth $6.

 

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