Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 0.62% to hit a new 1-month high.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which rose 5.33% or 8950 points to trade at 176950 at the close. Meanwhile, ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p) added 5.15% or 60.0 points to end at 1225.0 and Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) was up 3.81% or 1.085 points to 29.585 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which fell 2.05% or 0.0178 points to trade at 0.8522 at the close. Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) declined 1.91% or 16.5 points to end at 848.5 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) was down 1.68% or 1.26 points to 73.95.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 124 to 86 and 14 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.82% to 23.470.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.21% or 2.50 to $1215.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.73% or 0.77 to hit $45.17 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.62% or 0.76 to trade at $47.64 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.98% to 60.8157, while EUR/RUB rose 1.05% to 69.3930.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.18% at 95.64.