Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Services and Property sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 0.14%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were PLDT Inc (PS:TEL), which rose 2.64% or 41.00 points to trade at 1596.00 at the close. Meanwhile, GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP) added 2.26% or 30.00 points to end at 1360.00 and Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC) was up 2.25% or 0.80 points to 36.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI), which fell 3.31% or 0.200 points to trade at 5.850 at the close. LT Group Inc (PS:LTG) declined 2.18% or 0.500 points to end at 22.400 and BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO) was down 2.12% or 3.30 points to 152.70.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 116 to 95 and 53 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 1.19% or 16.10 to $1340.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 0.81% or 0.50 to hit $62.05 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.67% or 0.44 to trade at $65.23 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.03% to 8.2421, while USD/PHP fell 0.13% to 52.270.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 89.48.