Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Manufacturing, Mining and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.20%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 4.58% or 31.80 points to trade at 725.90 at the close. Meanwhile, Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 2.94% or 2.30 points to end at 80.50 and MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) was up 2.41% or 253.0 points to 10768.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 4.61% or 25.4 points to trade at 526.1 at the close. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 3.09% or 63.00 points to end at 1975.00 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was down 2.13% or 1.690 points to 77.480.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 116 to 99 and 22 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.23% to 19.230.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.74% or 9.49 to $1291.19 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 2.09% or 1.19 to hit $58.02 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.96% or 0.60 to trade at $63.17 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.00% to 58.5949, while EUR/RUB fell 0.52% to 69.0800.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.48% at 93.44.