Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Lukoil (MCX:LKOH), which rose 2.66% or 74.5 points to trade at 2874.5 at the close. Meanwhile, MMK (MCX:MAGN) added 2.59% or 0.840 points to end at 33.300 and Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) was up 2.32% or 8.65 points to 380.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which fell 1.16% or 0.90 points to trade at 76.76 at the close. Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) declined 1.09% or 1.60 points to end at 145.50 and Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) was down 0.85% or 7.0 points to 817.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 140 to 73 and 20 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.08% to 22.590.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.20% or 2.50 to $1249.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.90% or 0.40 to hit $44.64 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.07% or 0.50 to trade at $47.42 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.27% to 59.3299, while EUR/RUB rose 1.44% to 67.4720.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.40% at 95.80.