Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 1.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 3.73% or 87.00 points to trade at 2420.00 at the close. NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 3.66% or 22.0 points to end at 623.5 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was up 1.77% or 6.00 points to 345.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which lost 7.65% or 0.0144 points to trade at 0.1746 in late trade. United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) declined 2.44% or 0.610 points to end at 24.430 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) shed 2.41% or 5.49 points to 222.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 126 to 85 and 20 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.32% to 22.350.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.94% or 11.60 to $1228.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.01% or 0.01 to hit $67.08 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.45% or 0.32 to trade at $72.16 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.29% to 62.5050, while EUR/RUB fell 0.15% to 72.8723.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.48% at 94.72.