Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which rose 5.40% or 353.0 points to trade at 6884.0 at the close. Meanwhile, VTB (MCX:VTBR) added 2.56% or 0.0013 points to end at 0.0534 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was up 2.09% or 0.245 points to 11.975 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX), which fell 3.26% or 4.03 points to trade at 119.50 at the close. MVideo (MCX:MVID) declined 2.87% or 11.70 points to end at 396.30 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was down 2.73% or 0.0990 points to 3.5235.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 119 to 100 and 20 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.33% to 17.890.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.00% or 12.75 to $1290.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.38% or 1.31 to hit $56.45 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 2.05% or 1.26 to trade at $62.62 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.82% to 59.1837, while EUR/RUB fell 0.61% to 69.8107.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 93.57.