Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.17%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which rose 5.12% or 264.0 points to trade at 5419.0 at the close. Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) added 4.50% or 32.5 points to end at 754.0 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was up 2.92% or 7.32 points to 257.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT), which lost 3.20% or 4.40 points to trade at 133.20 in late trade. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) declined 2.57% or 0.810 points to end at 30.700 and Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) shed 2.28% or 13.20 points to 565.40.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 115 to 101 and 19 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 3.04% to 18.170.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.13% or 1.70 to $1338.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.88% or 1.23 to hit $64.33 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 1.36% or 0.94 to trade at $68.26 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.19% to 56.4220, while EUR/RUB rose 0.25% to 69.8992.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.09% at 89.09.