Investing.com – Philippines equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Services and Banking & Financials sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.98%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc (PS:AEV), which rose 2.34% or 1.800 points to trade at 78.800 at the close. Aboitiz Power Corp (PS:AP) added 1.22% or 0.55 points to end at 45.70 and DMCI Holdings Inc (PS:DMC) was up 0.84% or 0.100 points to 11.960 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Bloomberry Resorts Corp (PS:BLOOM), which lost 8.66% or 0.440 points to trade at 4.640 in late trade. JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS) declined 4.42% or 3.350 points to end at 72.400 and BDO Unibank Inc (PS:BDO) shed 3.27% or 3.50 points to 103.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 145 to 51 and 41 ended unchanged on the Philippines Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was down 0.37% or 4.95 to $1339.15 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.37% or 0.63 to hit $45.30 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.61% or 0.77 to trade at $47.16 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.08% to 7.2273, while USD/PHP fell 0.04% to 48.220.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 95.28.