Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Property, Industrials and Holding Firms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite declined 0.39%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG), which rose 2.00% or 0.110 points to trade at 5.600 at the close. Meanwhile, Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI) added 1.92% or 0.300 points to end at 15.900 and Bank of the Philippine Islands (PS:BPI) was up 0.81% or 0.80 points to 99.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN), which fell 2.41% or 0.42 points to trade at 17.00 at the close. Aboitiz Power Corp (PS:AP) declined 2.20% or 0.90 points to end at 40.00 and Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) was down 1.75% or 0.750 points to 42.050.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 122 to 80 and 48 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.42% or 5.33 to $1280.63 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.16% or 0.09 to hit $56.51 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.37% or 0.23 to trade at $62.45 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.08% to 7.6472, while USD/PHP fell 0.34% to 50.729.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 93.94.