Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Lenta Ltd (MCX:LNTADR), which rose 3.80% or 14 points to trade at 369 at the close. Meanwhile, Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) added 2.95% or 17 points to end at 592 and DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) was up 2.52% or 8.10 points to 329.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT), which fell 3.99% or 5.85 points to trade at 140.75 at the close. MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) declined 3.19% or 375.0 points to end at 11375.0 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) was down 2.72% or 179.0 points to 6400.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 130 to 91 and 19 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 9.65% to 20.120 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.01% or 0.20 to $1334.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.17% or 0.75 to hit $63.55 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.75% or 1.23 to trade at $69.03 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.26% to 56.4802, while EUR/RUB rose 0.01% to 69.1550.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 90.36.