Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Holding Firms, Industrials and Property sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.18% to hit a new 3-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM), which rose 6.79% or 0.330 points to trade at 5.190 at the close. Semirara Mining Corp (PS:SCC) added 3.25% or 3.9000 points to end at 124.0000 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 2.86% or 0.300 points to 10.800 in late trade.
Biggest losers included JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS), which lost 3.24% or 2.400 points to trade at 71.700 in late trade. Manila Electric Co (PS:MER) declined 1.88% or 5.800 points to end at 302.000 and Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) shed 1.67% or 0.120 points to 7.070.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 96 to 77 and 51 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.03% or 0.40 to $1260.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.72% or 0.37 to hit $50.98 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.81% or 0.43 to trade at $52.71 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.62% to 7.2531, while USD/PHP rose 0.76% to 48.707.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.31% at 97.21.