Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Banking & Financials and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite added 0.77%.
The best performers 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. Meanwhile, 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.
The worst performers of the session were First Gen (PS:FGEN), which fell 1.36% or 0.30 points to trade at 21.80 at the close. Gt Capital Hol (PS:GTCAP) declined 1.00% or 13.000 points to end at 1285.000 and Dmci Holdings (PS:DMC) was down 0.77% or 0.100 points to 12.880.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 125 to 51 and 18 ended unchanged.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.43% or 4.70 to $1078.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, 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 99.74.