Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Manufacturing, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 1.47%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 11.13% or 5.70 points to trade at 56.90 at the close. Meanwhile, VTB (MCX:VTBR) added 5.23% or 0.0035 points to end at 0.0700 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was up 4.89% or 0.0029 points to 0.0628 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which fell 5.87% or 31.00 points to trade at 497.00 at the close. Akron (MCX:AKRN) declined 4.47% or 129.0 points to end at 2758.0 and Polyus Gold International Ltd (MCX:PGIL) was down 4.09% or 9.00 points to 211.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 151 to 57 and 4 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.58% to 44.730.
Gold for December delivery was down 1.46% or 16.90 to $1136.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 3.14% or 1.20 to hit $39.44 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.79% or 0.77 to trade at $43.45 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 2.88% to 68.784, while EUR/RUB fell 4.73% to 78.486.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.33% at 94.62.