Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Industrials, Holding Firms and Property sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite gained 1.44%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI), which rose 6.51% or 0.390 points to trade at 6.380 at the close. Meanwhile, Universal Robina Corp (PS:URC) added 4.67% or 7.000 points to end at 157.000 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was up 4.38% or 0.420 points to 10.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Security Bank Corp (PS:SECB), which fell 2.75% or 5.50 points to trade at 194.50 at the close. First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) declined 1.80% or 0.40 points to end at 21.80 and International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) was down 1.79% or 1.250 points to 68.600.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 89 to 77 and 57 ended unchanged.
Gold for February delivery was up 1.03% or 11.65 to $1145.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.57% or 0.30 to hit $53.32 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.25% or 0.14 to trade at $56.04 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.05% to 7.1643, while USD/PHP fell 0.02% to 49.777.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.07% at 103.02.