Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.87%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which rose 3.07% or 57.0 points to trade at 1911.0 at the close. Meanwhile, MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) added 1.68% or 8.00 points to end at 484.00 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was up 1.46% or 1.280 points to 88.750 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which fell 3.81% or 148.0 points to trade at 3737.0 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) declined 3.15% or 3.75 points to end at 115.40 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was down 3.09% or 67.50 points to 2118.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 112 to 93 and 25 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 9.30% to 20.570.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 1.98% or 26.10 to $1292.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.11% or 0.08 to hit $70.88 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.87% or 0.68 to trade at $78.91 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.79% to 62.3359, while EUR/RUB rose 0.32% to 74.0135.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.43% at 92.95.