Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Holding Firms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC), which rose 2.60% or 0.650 points to trade at 25.650 at the close. Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) added 2.55% or 0.280 points to end at 11.260 and Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) was up 2.04% or 42.00 points to 2102.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN), which lost 2.57% or 0.50 points to trade at 18.98 in late trade. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 1.70% or 0.080 points to end at 4.630 and Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) shed 1.40% or 0.090 points to 6.350.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 105 to 76 and 58 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.26% or 3.36 to $1264.74 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.44% or 0.22 to hit $49.58 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.78% or 0.41 to trade at $52.23 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.06% to 7.2608, while USD/PHP fell 0.10% to 49.768.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 97.48.