Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.41%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which rose 2.02% or 0.0750 points to trade at 3.7950 at the close. Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) added 1.82% or 2.54 points to end at 142.45 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was up 1.53% or 37.00 points to 2463.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MTS (MCX:MTSS), which lost 3.11% or 9.90 points to trade at 308.10 in late trade. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) declined 3.01% or 18.0 points to end at 579.5 and GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) shed 1.97% or 0.0151 points to 0.7500.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 116 to 96 and 19 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.14% to 21.840.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.55% or 7.20 to $1310.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 2.12% or 1.32 to hit $63.45 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.86% or 1.23 to trade at $67.28 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.45% to 57.5731, while EUR/RUB fell 1.07% to 70.5646.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.53% at 89.94.