Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Manufacturing, Power and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.10%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 5.00% or 90.00 points to trade at 1889.00 at the close. NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) added 2.33% or 3.12 points to end at 137.15 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was up 1.92% or 0.0031 points to 0.1645 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN), which lost 3.87% or 28.5 points to trade at 708.0 in late trade. Magnit (MCX:MGNT) declined 3.75% or 308.0 points to end at 7913.0 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 2.26% or 0.0217 points to 0.9380.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 129 to 93 and 20 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.13% to 15.180 a new all time low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.28% or 3.64 to $1277.26 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.92% or 0.48 to hit $52.38 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 1.36% or 0.78 to trade at $58.15 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.19% to 57.6598, while EUR/RUB rose 0.34% to 67.8200.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 93.81.