Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Tuesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.17%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK), which rose 2.62% or 17.30 points to trade at 678.70 at the close. Meanwhile, NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) added 1.78% or 2.30 points to end at 131.30 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was up 1.43% or 3.24 points to 230.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which fell 3.13% or 330.0 points to trade at 10220.0 at the close. Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM) declined 2.57% or 1.71 points to end at 64.70 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was down 2.48% or 0.280 points to 11.010.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 124 to 96 and 18 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.97% to 19.400.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.07% or 0.90 to $1295.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.48% or 0.28 to hit $57.83 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.58% or 0.37 to trade at $63.01 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.16% to 58.3900, while EUR/RUB fell 0.32% to 69.3700.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 93.10.