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 MOEX Russia declined 0.42%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which rose 3.03% or 9.20 points to trade at 313.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) added 2.60% or 19.5 points to end at 769.0 and Lenta Ltd (MCX:LNTADR) was up 2.12% or 8 points to 386 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which fell 3.60% or 0.0066 points to trade at 0.1781 at the close. Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) declined 3.35% or 32.40 points to end at 935.40 and MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG) was down 2.58% or 0.0720 points to 2.7180.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 132 to 94 and 12 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.19% to 19.130.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.38% or 5.00 to $1336.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 1.37% or 0.87 to hit $64.44 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 1.20% or 0.83 to trade at $69.86 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.11% to 56.4425, while EUR/RUB rose 0.04% to 69.2975.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 90.04.