Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Holding Firms and Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite added 0.12%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were SM Investments Corp (PS:SM), which rose 3.17% or 30.00 points to trade at 975.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) added 2.71% or 44.00 points to end at 1668.00 and International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) was up 2.04% or 2.000 points to 100.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG), which fell 3.97% or 0.190 points to trade at 4.600 at the close. Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB) declined 2.88% or 6.80 points to end at 229.20 and Bank of the Philippine Islands (PS:BPI) was down 2.81% or 3.14 points to 108.70.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 103 to 100 and 44 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.37% or 5.00 to $1341.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.70% or 0.44 to hit $63.45 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.78% or 0.53 to trade at $68.17 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.24% to 8.2849, while USD/PHP fell 0.09% to 52.070.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 89.55.