Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.58% to hit a new all time high.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which rose 4.34% or 34.00 points to trade at 818.10 at the close. NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) added 2.90% or 12.95 points to end at 460.00 and Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) was up 2.57% or 13.70 points to 547.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which lost 7.00% or 35.0 points to trade at 465.0 in late trade. Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) declined 3.05% or 22.0 points to end at 699.0 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) shed 2.27% or 0.205 points to 8.845.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 114 to 96 and 25 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.08% to 26.470.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.16% or 1.90 to $1206.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.04% or 0.03 to hit $72.11 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.82% or 0.66 to trade at $81.19 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.01% to 65.8398, while EUR/RUB rose 0.16% to 77.4900.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 93.69.