Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking & Financials, Property and Services sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite added 1.45%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Bank of the Philippine Islands (PS:BPI), which rose 5.22% or 5.70 points to trade at 115.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co (PS:MBT) added 3.37% or 2.80 points to end at 85.80 and San Miguel Corp (PS:SMC) was up 2.89% or 4.00 points to 142.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Energy Development Corp (PS:EDC), which fell 2.11% or 0.120 points to trade at 5.580 at the close. Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB) declined 1.06% or 2.60 points to end at 242.00 and JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS) was down 0.47% or 0.300 points to 63.200.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 148 to 63 and 33 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.15% or 2.10 to $1352.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.23% or 0.15 to hit $65.70 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.29% or 0.20 to trade at $69.72 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.32% to 8.3472, while USD/PHP rose 0.36% to 52.360.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 88.77.