Investing.com – Philippines equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Property, Holding Firms and Services sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 2.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC), which rose 8.61% or 2.300 points to trade at 29.000 at the close. Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM) added 6.37% or 0.260 points to end at 4.340 and SM Prime Holdings Inc (PS:SMPH) was up 5.96% or 1.350 points to 24.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included San Miguel Corp (PS:SMC), which lost 0.82% or 0.550 points to trade at 66.400 in late trade. BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 99.50 and Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI) 0.00% or 0.000 points to 14.360.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 129 to 48 and 48 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was down 0.03% or 0.35 to $1266.25 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.90% or 0.39 to hit $43.83 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 1.38% or 0.60 to trade at $44.23 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 1.16% to 7.1726, while USD/PHP fell 1.18% to 46.735.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.03% at 94.11.