Investing.com – Philippines equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Banking & Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 0.77%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Petron (PS:PCOR), which rose 4.00% or 0.300 points to trade at 7.800 at the close. Metropolitan B (PS:MBT) added 2.53% or 2.00 points to end at 81.05 and Bloomberry Res (PS:BLOOM) was up 2.23% or 0.110 points to 5.050 in late trade.
Biggest losers included First Gen (PS:FGEN), which lost 1.36% or 0.30 points to trade at 21.80 in late trade. Gt Capital Hol (PS:GTCAP) declined 1.00% or 13.000 points to end at 1285.000 and Dmci Holdings (PS:DMC) shed 0.77% or 0.100 points to 12.880.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 125 to 51 and 18 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.44% or 4.80 to $1078.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $41.72 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.29% or 0.13 to trade at $44.69 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.12% to 7.3890, while USD/PHP fell 0.01% to 47.130.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.27% at 99.75.