Investing.com – Philippines equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Banking & Financials, Property and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 0.77%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Petron Corp (PS:PCOR), which rose 4.87% or 0.520 points to trade at 11.200 at the close. SM Investments Corp (PS:SM) added 2.50% or 17.000 points to end at 697.000 and San Miguel Corp (PS:SMC) was up 2.18% or 1.800 points to 84.300 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC), which lost 2.40% or 2.8000 points to trade at 114.0000 in late trade. Philex Mining Corp (PS:PX) declined 2.33% or 0.200 points to end at 8.400 and Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) shed 1.35% or 30.000 points to 2198.000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 95 to 90 and 41 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.16% or 2.15 to $1339.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.51% or 0.22 to hit $42.80 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.73% or 0.33 to trade at $45.06 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.24% to 7.0434, while USD/PHP fell 0.20% to 46.907.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 96.36.