Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.06%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 4.00% or 89.00 points to trade at 2315.00 at the close. Meanwhile, NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 2.33% or 15.0 points to end at 660.0 and PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) was up 1.89% or 43.0 points to 2320.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MTS (MCX:MTSS), which fell 3.84% or 11.05 points to trade at 276.95 at the close. ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) declined 2.23% or 2.400 points to end at 105.300 and NMTP (MCX:NMTP) was down 1.59% or 0.1050 points to 6.4950.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 100 to 89 and 31 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 3.44% to 22.180.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.26% or 3.30 to $1255.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.15% or 0.84 to hit $73.78 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.23% or 0.18 to trade at $77.21 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.18% to 62.9990, while EUR/RUB rose 0.20% to 73.9375.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.36% at 93.79.