Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 1.17% to hit a new 6-month low.
The biggest gainers 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. NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) added 2.01% or 6.15 points to end at 312.15 and GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) was up 1.78% or 0.0141 points to 0.8080 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p), which lost 4.66% or 5.70 points to trade at 116.55 in late trade. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 3.99% or 61.50 points to end at 1480.00 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) shed 3.94% or 4.30 points to 104.89.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 116 to 79 and 22 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.82% to 24.810.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.19% or 2.36 to $1266.54 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.48% or 0.22 to hit $46.30 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.