Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.41%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which rose 2.02% or 0.0750 points to trade at 3.7950 at the close. Meanwhile, Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) added 1.82% or 2.54 points to end at 142.45 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was up 1.53% or 37.00 points to 2463.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MTS (MCX:MTSS), which fell 3.11% or 9.90 points to trade at 308.10 at the close. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) declined 3.01% or 18.0 points to end at 579.5 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was down 1.97% or 0.0151 points to 0.7500.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 116 to 96 and 19 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.14% to 21.840.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.55% or 7.20 to $1310.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 2.16% or 1.34 to hit $63.47 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.89% or 1.25 to trade at $67.30 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.45% to 57.5744, while EUR/RUB fell 1.07% to 70.5635.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.53% at 89.94.