Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 1.70%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY), which rose 1.58% or 5.10 points to trade at 327.00 at the close. Meanwhile, NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) added 1.50% or 9.0 points to end at 609.0 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was up 1.29% or 3.30 points to 258.94 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which fell 4.95% or 7.05 points to trade at 135.25 at the close. FSK EES (MCX:FEES) declined 4.55% or 0.0080 points to end at 0.1679 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was down 4.44% or 95.50 points to 2054.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 210 to 19 and 18 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.90% to 24.790 a new 6-months high.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.38% or 5.10 to $1331.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.59% or 0.38 to hit $63.77 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.86% or 0.58 to trade at $67.04 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.20% to 57.0917, while EUR/RUB fell 0.44% to 70.6600.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 89.53.