Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 1.57%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK), which rose 5.22% or 42.00 points to trade at 847.00 at the close. Meanwhile, VTB (MCX:VTBR) added 4.43% or 0.0020 points to end at 0.0472 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was up 3.60% or 3.60 points to 103.65 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which fell 1.39% or 1.10 points to trade at 78.00 at the close. PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) declined 1.30% or 30.0 points to end at 2285.0 and NMTP (MCX:NMTP) was down 1.25% or 0.0800 points to 6.2950.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 140 to 75 and 22 ended unchanged.
Shares in NMTP (MCX:NMTP) fell to 52-week lows; losing 1.25% or 0.0800 to 6.2950.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.33% to 24.310.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.27% or 3.40 to $1275.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.45% or 0.29 to hit $65.19 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.03% or 0.77 to trade at $74.31 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.44% to 63.5955, while EUR/RUB fell 0.44% to 73.6918.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 94.67.