Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Power and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.12%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which rose 4.07% or 1.100 points to trade at 28.100 at the close. Meanwhile, NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 3.27% or 23.5 points to end at 741.5 and NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) was up 2.52% or 13.0 points to 529.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which fell 2.27% or 0.0192 points to trade at 0.8278 at the close. Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) declined 1.80% or 12 points to end at 656 and X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) was down 1.73% or 33.5 points to 1906.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 110 to 107 and 19 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.05% to 30.770.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.75% or 9.90 to $1333.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to hit $68.64 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.13% or 0.10 to trade at $74.81 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.65% to 61.4036, while EUR/RUB fell 0.44% to 75.1000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 90.57.