Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.78%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 2.29% or 1.51 points to trade at 67.35 at the close. Meanwhile, Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) added 2.00% or 11.00 points to end at 560.00 and Sollers (MCX:SVAV) was up 1.70% or 8.0 points to 479.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which fell 3.43% or 5500 points to trade at 155000 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 3.30% or 0.0365 points to end at 1.0690 and RDR United Company RUSAL PLC (MCX:RUALR) was down 3.05% or 9.50 points to 301.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 126 to 86 and 10 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.54% to 40.200.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.40% or 4.40 to $1103.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.95% or 0.86 to hit $44.86 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.24% or 0.12 to trade at $47.47 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.03% to 66.780, while EUR/RUB fell 1.62% to 75.319.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.37% at 95.74.