Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.23%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK), which rose 5.35% or 3.69 points to trade at 72.69 at the close. Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) added 4.61% or 27.20 points to end at 617.00 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 2.84% or 0.0350 points to 1.2660 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p), which lost 8.36% or 3.420 points to trade at 37.480 in late trade. Surgut (MCX:SNGS) declined 2.77% or 1.010 points to end at 35.440 and Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) shed 2.68% or 1.36 points to 49.43.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 104 to 81 and 5 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 10.24% to 36.020.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 0.87% or 10.30 to $1193.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 2.16% or 1.28 to hit $60.53 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 2.47% or 1.62 to trade at $67.24 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 2.05% to 50.193, while EUR/RUB fell 1.30% to 56.424.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.69% at 94.46.