Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.08%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 4.37% or 5.70 points to trade at 136.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) added 3.04% or 18 points to end at 611 and NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) was up 2.03% or 6.35 points to 319.60 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which fell 2.49% or 17.5 points to trade at 686.0 at the close. AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) declined 2.13% or 0.250 points to end at 11.500 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was down 1.90% or 0.0145 points to 0.7470.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 118 to 94 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.59% to 21.700.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.16% or 2.20 to $1339.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.33% or 0.21 to hit $63.30 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.43% or 0.29 to trade at $67.83 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.22% to 57.4507, while EUR/RUB fell 0.01% to 70.6508.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.17% at 89.70.