Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 0.25%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which rose 2.17% or 1.80 points to trade at 84.80 at the close. Meanwhile, Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) added 1.84% or 8.90 points to end at 493.90 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was up 1.56% or 5.00 points to 324.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which fell 4.08% or 29.5 points to trade at 694.0 at the close. PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) declined 3.87% or 93.0 points to end at 2313.0 and United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) was down 3.10% or 0.860 points to 26.840.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 130 to 83 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.17% to 22.990.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.10% or 1.30 to $1292.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.36% or 0.26 to hit $72.61 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.90% or 0.71 to trade at $79.93 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.82% to 61.0940, while EUR/RUB fell 0.88% to 72.0125.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 93.47.