Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Industrials and Holding Firms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 0.30%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were JG Summit Holdings Inc (PS:JGS), which rose 3.40% or 2.300 points to trade at 69.950 at the close. Meanwhile, Jollibee Foods Corp (PS:JFC) added 3.09% or 6.000 points to end at 200.000 and GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP) was up 2.36% or 30.000 points to 1300.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN), which fell 2.95% or 0.65 points to trade at 21.35 at the close. Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) declined 2.40% or 0.160 points to end at 6.500 and Energy Development Corp (PS:EDC) was down 1.36% or 0.070 points to 5.080.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 89 to 78 and 42 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.04% or 0.50 to $1151.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.74% or 0.40 to hit $54.12 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.76% or 0.43 to trade at $57.25 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.27% to 7.1678, while USD/PHP rose 0.11% to 49.784.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.67% at 103.06.