Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining & Oil, Banking & Financials and Holding Firms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite fell 0.17%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Bloomberry Res (PS:BLOOM), which rose 4.11% or 0.360 points to trade at 9.100 at the close. Meanwhile, Energy Develop (PS:EDC) added 0.96% or 0.070 points to end at 7.300 and Manila Electri (PS:MER) was up 0.48% or 1.400 points to 292.400 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG), which fell 2.90% or 0.140 points to trade at 4.670 at the close. Petron (PS:PCOR) declined 2.67% or 0.240 points to end at 8.700 and Ayala Corp (PS:AC) was down 1.70% or 13.000 points to 748.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 106 to 73 and 14 ended unchanged.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.04% or 0.50 to $1166.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.30% or 0.16 to hit $53.17 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.47% or 0.27 to trade at $57.43 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.38% to 7.2857, while USD/PHP rose 0.40% to 45.247.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.55% at 96.96.