Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.41% to hit a new 6-months low.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 3.34% or 24.00 points to trade at 743.50 at the close. Meanwhile, NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) added 1.48% or 9.00 points to end at 618.00 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was up 1.33% or 0.0109 points to 0.8309 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which fell 7.45% or 1.055 points to trade at 13.105 at the close. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) declined 3.43% or 12.90 points to end at 363.40 and MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG) was down 2.82% or 0.0670 points to 2.3130.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 109 to 95 and 24 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.83% to 25.160 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 1.02% or 13.03 to $1295.73 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.08% or 0.51 to hit $47.91 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.67% or 0.33 to trade at $49.80 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.19% to 56.5029, while EUR/RUB rose 0.17% to 63.8220.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.21% at 96.57.