Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia Index declined 0.72%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia Index were ROSSETI PJSC (MCX:FEES), which unchanged 2.44% or 0.00 points to trade at 0.07 at the close. Meanwhile, OZON (MCX:OZON) added 1.76% or 66.00 points to end at 3,808.00 and Mobil’nye Telesistemy PJSC (MCX:MTSS) was up 0.72% or 1.55 points to 216.55 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unipro PJSC (MCX:UPRO), which fell 1.68% or 0.03 points to trade at 1.46 at the close. Novolipetsk Steel (MCX:NLMK) declined 1.39% or 1.50 points to end at 106.50 and Magnitogorskiy Metallurgicheskiy Kombinat PAO (MCX:MAGN) was down 1.28% or 0.34 points to 26.27.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 156 to 79 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian Volatility Index – RVI, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia Index options, was down 3.77% to 33.44.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.81% or 34.75 to $4,240.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.18% or 0.70 to hit $58.62 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.16% or 0.73 to trade at $62.44 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.28% to 77.50, while EUR/RUB fell 0.13% to 90.09.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 99.29.
