Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 1.98%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Gazprom (MCX:GAZP), which rose 6.60% or 9.65 points to trade at 155.95 at the close. Meanwhile, FSK EES (MCX:FEES) added 6.24% or 0.0056 points to end at 0.0950 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 5.80% or 0.0351 points to 0.6400 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR), which fell 1.94% or 0.0134 points to trade at 0.6790 at the close. Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRO) declined 1.81% or 21 points to end at 1137 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was down 1.81% or 0.0320 points to 1.7325.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 128 to 89 and 26 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.23% to 34.990.
Gold for June delivery was up 1.70% or 21.00 to $1256.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 2.62% or 1.08 to hit $42.27 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 2.07% or 0.89 to trade at $43.80 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.10% to 66.1519, while EUR/RUB rose 0.44% to 75.223.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.49% at 93.99.