Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Services, Mining & Oil and Banking & Financials sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.68%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were LT Group Inc (PS:LTG), which rose 5.43% or 1.000 points to trade at 19.400 at the close. Meanwhile, Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) added 1.36% or 0.090 points to end at 6.710 and Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB) was up 0.87% or 2.20 points to 254.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were PLDT Inc (PS:TEL), which fell 5.84% or 90.00 points to trade at 1450.00 at the close. JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS) declined 4.83% or 3.600 points to end at 71.000 and BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO) was down 2.91% or 4.50 points to 150.30.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 116 to 89 and 46 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.18% or 2.30 to $1267.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.58% or 0.33 to hit $57.55 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.44% or 0.28 to trade at $63.69 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.12% to 7.6238, while USD/PHP rose 0.03% to 50.389.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.15% at 93.09.