Investing.com – Philippines stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining & Oil, Property and Industrials sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite rose 0.55%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were SM Prime Holdings Inc (PS:SMPH), which rose 3.02% or 0.900 points to trade at 30.700 at the close. Meanwhile, Jollibee Foods Corp (PS:JFC) added 2.76% or 5.80 points to end at 215.80 and International Container Terminal Services Inc (PS:ICT) was up 2.62% or 2.270 points to 88.800 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Alliance Global Group Inc (PS:AGI), which fell 3.24% or 0.480 points to trade at 14.320 at the close. PLDT Inc (PS:TEL) declined 1.69% or 30.00 points to end at 1740.00 and Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) was down 1.54% or 32.00 points to 2046.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 120 to 82 and 40 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.08% or 0.99 to $1256.49 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.45% or 0.22 to hit $49.06 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.62% or 0.32 to trade at $51.84 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.17% to 7.2601, while USD/PHP rose 0.14% to 50.035.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 98.92.