Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 1.81%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP), which rose 7.66% or 11.78 points to trade at 165.58 at the close. Meanwhile, AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) added 6.11% or 0.475 points to end at 8.245 and X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) was up 3.96% or 65.5 points to 1721.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK), which fell 1.34% or 2.16 points to trade at 159.04 at the close. MMK (MCX:MAGN) declined 1.33% or 0.620 points to end at 45.880 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was down 0.96% or 0.87 points to 90.17.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 129 to 79 and 19 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 4.58% to 27.110.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.02% or 0.20 to $1220.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $51.55 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.22% or 0.13 to trade at $60.27 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.24% to 67.2239, while EUR/RUB rose 0.11% to 75.8493.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 97.363.