Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Power and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.12%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK), which rose 2.97% or 28.50 points to trade at 987.60 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) added 2.28% or 2.28 points to end at 102.37 and Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) was up 2.03% or 0.735 points to 37.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which lost 2.52% or 41.0 points to trade at 1583.0 in late trade. Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) declined 2.44% or 16.0 points to end at 639.0 and Unipro (MCX:UPRO) shed 2.33% or 0.0620 points to 2.6010.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 115 to 98 and 14 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 19.78% to 28.160 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.28% or 3.40 to $1202.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.19% or 0.13 to hit $67.33 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.26% or 0.19 to trade at $72.80 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.93% to 66.5038, while EUR/RUB fell 2.55% to 75.3988.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.45% at 96.59.