Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.49%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 7.90% or 10.50 points to trade at 143.40 at the close. Meanwhile, PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) added 3.84% or 94.0 points to end at 2543.0 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was up 3.58% or 4.80 points to 138.76 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN), which fell 6.11% or 44.0 points to trade at 676.0 at the close. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 3.05% or 0.2500 points to end at 7.9500 and Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) was down 2.49% or 17 points to 666.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 128 to 83 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 4.13% to 18.900.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.13% or 1.70 to $1266.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 2.46% or 1.42 to hit $56.20 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 2.12% or 1.33 to trade at $61.53 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.77% to 59.1867, while EUR/RUB rose 0.43% to 69.7680.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 93.59.