Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 1.18%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 5.92% or 129.00 points to trade at 2307.00 at the close. Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) added 4.72% or 27.80 points to end at 616.80 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 3.22% or 0.1240 points to 3.9795 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which lost 2.99% or 13.4 points to trade at 435.2 in late trade. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) declined 1.99% or 11.4 points to end at 560.6 and GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) shed 1.52% or 0.0090 points to 0.5816.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 124 to 73 and 24 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.27% to 25.960.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.14% or 1.70 to $1232.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.15% or 0.11 to hit $71.67 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.19 to trade at $80.97 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.39% to 65.3980, while EUR/RUB fell 0.37% to 75.7500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.06% at 94.71.