Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 1.98%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Gazprom (MCX:GAZP), which rose 6.60% or 9.65 points to trade at 155.95 at the close. FSK EES (MCX:FEES) added 6.24% or 0.0056 points to end at 0.0950 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 5.80% or 0.0351 points to 0.6400 in late trade.
Biggest losers included GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR), which lost 1.94% or 0.0134 points to trade at 0.6790 in late trade. Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRO) declined 1.81% or 21 points to end at 1137 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) shed 1.81% or 0.0320 points to 1.7325.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 128 to 89 and 26 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.23% to 34.990.
In commodities trading, Gold for June delivery was up 1.70% or 21.00 to $1256.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 2.62% or 1.08 to hit $42.27 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 2.07% or 0.89 to trade at $43.80 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.10% to 66.1534, while EUR/RUB rose 0.44% to 75.223.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.49% at 93.99.