Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Tuesday, as losses in the Manufacturing, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.93%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which rose 6.56% or 0.1440 points to trade at 2.3390 at the close. FSK EES (MCX:FEES) added 5.69% or 0.0070 points to end at 0.1300 and AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) was up 4.41% or 7300 points to 172900 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p), which lost 5.33% or 5.00 points to trade at 88.75 in late trade. Sberbank (MCX:SBER) declined 4.81% or 6.42 points to end at 127.08 and Rosneft (MCX:ROSN) shed 3.86% or 13.05 points to 324.80.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 119 to 94 and 23 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.36% to 33.430.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.18% or 2.35 to $1284.55 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 1.15% or 0.56 to hit $48.32 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.43% or 0.72 to trade at $49.63 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.09% to 65.9825, while EUR/RUB fell 0.21% to 73.969.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.64% at 95.02.