Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.58%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 11.65% or 53.0 points to trade at 508.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 2.65% or 1.50 points to end at 58.00 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was up 2.49% or 4.20 points to 172.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER), which fell 1.92% or 4.56 points to trade at 233.24 at the close. Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) declined 1.10% or 2.25 points to end at 202.70 and MTS (MCX:MTSS) was down 1.06% or 2.75 points to 257.45.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 121 to 107 and 20 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.56% to 20.850.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.11% or 14.35 to $1276.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.41% or 0.26 to hit $63.66 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.25% or 0.18 to trade at $71.36 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.25% to 64.1038, while EUR/RUB fell 0.40% to 72.3399.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 96.688.