Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 1.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY), which rose 1.58% or 5.10 points to trade at 327.00 at the close. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) added 1.50% or 9.0 points to end at 609.0 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was up 1.29% or 3.30 points to 258.94 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which lost 4.95% or 7.05 points to trade at 135.25 in late trade. FSK EES (MCX:FEES) declined 4.55% or 0.0080 points to end at 0.1679 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) shed 4.44% or 95.50 points to 2054.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 210 to 19 and 18 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.85% to 24.780 a new 6-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.38% or 5.10 to $1331.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.59% or 0.38 to hit $63.77 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.86% or 0.58 to trade at $67.04 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.20% to 57.0917, while EUR/RUB fell 0.44% to 70.6600.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.04% at 89.53.