Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Property, Mining & Oil and Holding Firms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite declined 0.32%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC), which rose 2.60% or 0.650 points to trade at 25.650 at the close. Meanwhile, Petron Corp (PS:PCOR) added 2.55% or 0.280 points to end at 11.260 and Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO) was up 2.04% or 42.00 points to 2102.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN), which fell 2.57% or 0.50 points to trade at 18.98 at the close. Megaworld Corp (PS:MEG) declined 1.70% or 0.080 points to end at 4.630 and Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI) was down 1.40% or 0.090 points to 6.350.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 105 to 76 and 58 ended unchanged.
Shares in First Gen Corp (PS:FGEN) fell to 52-week lows; losing 2.57% or 0.50 to 18.98.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.26% or 3.27 to $1264.83 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.44% or 0.22 to hit $49.58 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.78% or 0.41 to trade at $52.23 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was down 0.06% to 7.2608, while USD/PHP fell 0.10% to 49.768.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 97.48.