Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Services, Mining & Oil and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite declined 0.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc (PS:AEV), which rose 2.44% or 1.900 points to trade at 79.800 at the close. BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO) added 2.01% or 2.30 points to end at 117.00 and Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co (PS:MBT) was up 1.31% or 1.25 points to 96.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Philippine Long Distance Telephone Company (PS:TEL), which lost 8.15% or 174.00 points to trade at 1962.00 in late trade. Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) declined 3.54% or 0.380 points to end at 10.340 and First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) shed 1.36% or 0.35 points to 25.40.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 101 to 97 and 43 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.47% or 6.45 to $1366.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.35% or 0.14 to hit $39.92 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.31% or 0.13 to trade at $42.01 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.03% to 7.0816, while USD/PHP rose 0.14% to 47.013.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.36% at 95.41.