Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Services, Property and Mining & Oil sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 0.26%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT), which rose 3.17% or 3.200 points to trade at 104.200 at the close. Meanwhile, Ayala Corp (PS:AC) added 1.46% or 12.50 points to end at 867.50 and Ayala Land Inc (PS:ALI) was up 1.25% or 0.500 points to 40.400 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were LT Group Inc (PS:LTG), which fell 3.35% or 0.520 points to trade at 15.020 at the close. Emperador Inc (PS:EMP) declined 1.45% or 0.120 points to end at 8.130 and Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) was down 1.44% or 0.140 points to 9.600.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 118 to 85 and 51 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.20% or 2.37 to $1210.83 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.54% or 0.24 to hit $44.16 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.62% or 0.29 to trade at $46.59 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.26% to 7.4690, while USD/PHP rose 0.18% to 50.780.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 95.86.