Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.38%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p), which rose 2.48% or 1.75 points to trade at 72.45 at the close. Meanwhile, Gruppa Cherkizovo ao (MCX:GCHE) added 2.14% or 22.0 points to end at 1028.0 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was up 2.13% or 0.0139 points to 0.6659 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which fell 4.63% or 3.05 points to trade at 62.85 at the close. Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) declined 3.56% or 6.65 points to end at 180.35 and MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) was down 3.44% or 29.00 points to 814.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 100 to 97 and 10 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.63% to 32.400.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.66% or 7.10 to $1073.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.26% or 0.45 to hit $36.26 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.18% or 0.07 to trade at $36.28 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.51% to 71.204, while EUR/RUB rose 0.18% to 78.177.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.31% at 98.13.