Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.51%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK), which rose 4.74% or 4.99 points to trade at 110.29 at the close. Meanwhile, Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT) added 1.37% or 2.50 points to end at 184.40 and PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) was up 1.10% or 26.0 points to 2391.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which fell 5.01% or 9400 points to trade at 178100 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) declined 3.27% or 3.56 points to end at 105.34 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was down 3.26% or 0.0062 points to 0.1839.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 143 to 74 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.17% to 23.670.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.59% or 7.27 to $1237.27 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $48.82 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.02% or 0.01 to trade at $51.83 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.18% to 56.4555, while EUR/RUB rose 1.08% to 62.526.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.69% at 98.13.