Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.66%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which rose 4.17% or 7500 points to trade at 187350 at the close. Meanwhile, Unipro (MCX:UPRO) added 1.31% or 0.0330 points to end at 2.5550 and NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) was up 0.97% or 3.15 points to 328.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which fell 4.65% or 0.0499 points to trade at 1.0240 at the close. ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) declined 2.00% or 1.620 points to end at 79.370 and Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) was down 1.59% or 2.02 points to 125.15.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 143 to 76 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.66% to 15.990.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 1.14% or 14.86 to $1288.14 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.83% or 0.43 to hit $51.44 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.73% or 0.42 to trade at $57.40 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.25% to 57.4675, while EUR/RUB fell 0.07% to 67.5528.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.35% at 93.47.