Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Property, Banking & Financials and Industrials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 0.05%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN), which rose 3.62% or 0.80 points to trade at 22.90 at the close. Ayala Corp (PS:AC) added 2.71% or 22.000 points to end at 834.000 and Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) was up 2.29% or 40.000 points to 1790.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI), which lost 2.13% or 0.150 points to trade at 6.900 in late trade. Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) declined 1.51% or 0.550 points to end at 35.950 and JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS) shed 1.16% or 0.900 points to 77.000.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 96 to 86 and 49 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.24% or 2.95 to $1212.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.74% or 0.39 to hit $53.14 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.71% or 0.39 to trade at $55.62 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.09% to 7.2682, while USD/PHP fell 0.03% to 49.845.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.28% at 100.23.