Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 1.17% to hit a new 6-months low.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which rose 2.19% or 0.0875 points to trade at 4.0750 at the close. Meanwhile, NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) added 2.01% or 6.15 points to end at 312.15 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was up 1.78% or 0.0141 points to 0.8080 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p), which fell 4.66% or 5.70 points to trade at 116.55 at the close. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 3.99% or 61.50 points to end at 1480.00 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was down 3.94% or 4.30 points to 104.89.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 116 to 79 and 22 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.82% to 24.810.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.20% or 2.48 to $1266.42 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.50% or 0.23 to hit $46.31 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.50% or 0.24 to trade at $48.53 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.21% to 56.9025, while EUR/RUB fell 0.08% to 63.7690.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 97.03.