Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.37%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which rose 4.09% or 16.0 points to trade at 407.0 at the close. X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) added 3.80% or 63.0 points to end at 1719.5 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was up 2.36% or 4.30 points to 186.60 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MMK (MCX:MAGN), which lost 4.05% or 1.805 points to trade at 42.750 in late trade. Lukoil (MCX:LKOH) declined 3.43% or 175.0 points to end at 4925.0 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) shed 1.77% or 1.45 points to 80.70.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 130 to 83 and 17 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 3.83% to 27.630.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.02% or 0.30 to $1252.10 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 5.36% or 2.69 to hit $47.51 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 4.18% or 2.49 to trade at $57.12 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.33% to 66.9968, while EUR/RUB rose 0.53% to 76.1717.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 96.472.