Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.35%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Lenta Ltd (MCX:LNTADR), which rose 3.11% or 12 points to trade at 398 at the close. Meanwhile, NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) added 2.84% or 9.50 points to end at 344.50 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) was up 2.01% or 1.61 points to 81.79 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY), which fell 3.28% or 3.15 points to trade at 92.95 at the close. ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) declined 2.26% or 1.900 points to end at 82.100 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) was down 2.23% or 1.000 points to 43.900.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 110 to 101 and 22 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.48% to 18.610.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 1.20% or 16.10 to $1352.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.70% or 0.45 to hit $64.92 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.06% or 0.04 to trade at $69.92 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.10% to 56.2984, while EUR/RUB rose 0.66% to 69.7546.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.85% at 89.12.