Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 1.18%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 5.92% or 129.00 points to trade at 2307.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) added 4.72% or 27.80 points to end at 616.80 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 3.22% or 0.1240 points to 3.9795 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which fell 2.99% or 13.4 points to trade at 435.2 at the close. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) declined 1.99% or 11.4 points to end at 560.6 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was down 1.52% or 0.0090 points to 0.5816.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 124 to 73 and 24 ended unchanged.
Shares in NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) fell to all time lows; down 2.99% or 13.4 to 435.2. Shares in RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) fell to 52-week lows; falling 1.52% or 0.0090 to 0.5816.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.23% to 25.950.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.13% or 1.60 to $1231.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.15% or 0.11 to hit $71.67 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.19 to trade at $80.97 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.39% to 65.3983, while EUR/RUB fell 0.37% to 75.7500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 94.71.