Investing.com – Philippines stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Services, Industrials and Holding Firms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Philippines, the PSEi Composite lost 1.46%.
The best performers of the session on the PSEi Composite were Metro Pacific Investments Corp (PS:MPI), which rose 2.56% or 0.170 points to trade at 6.820 at the close. Meanwhile, Metropolitan Bank and Trust Co (PS:MBT) unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 points to end at 81.50 and Aboitiz Equity Ventures Inc (PS:AEV) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.000 points to 74.300 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Globe Telecom Inc (PS:GLO), which fell 4.12% or 74.000 points to trade at 1720.000 at the close. Robinsons Land Corp (PS:RLC) declined 3.65% or 0.950 points to end at 25.100 and GT Capital Holdings Inc (PS:GTCAP) was down 3.41% or 46.000 points to 1304.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Philippines Stock Exchange by 124 to 65 and 45 ended unchanged.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.38% or 4.55 to $1200.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.48% or 0.25 to hit $52.38 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.33% or 0.18 to trade at $55.14 a barrel.
CNY/PHP was up 0.05% to 7.2322, while USD/PHP fell 0.09% to 49.770.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 100.29.