Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Property, Industrials and Mining & Oil sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.84%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO), which rose 4.33% or 100.000 points to trade at 2410.000 at the close. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) added 3.69% or 0.160 points to end at 4.500 and San Miguel Corp (PS:SMC) was up 2.12% or 1.700 points to 82.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which lost 6.14% or 3.700 points to trade at 56.550 in late trade. GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP) declined 3.79% or 55.000 points to end at 1395.000 and First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) shed 3.04% or 0.70 points to 22.30.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 115 to 74 and 42 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.23% or 2.85 to $1213.85 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.28% or 0.14 to hit $49.47 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.69% or 0.35 to trade at $50.01 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.10% to 7.1039, while USD/PHP fell 0.08% to 46.778.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.06% at 95.78.