Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Power, Manufacturing and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Gruppa Cherkizovo ao (MCX:GCHE), which rose 2.23% or 17.0 points to trade at 779.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) added 2.00% or 2.40 points to end at 122.60 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was up 1.86% or 25.00 points to 1371.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which fell 5.96% or 44.50 points to trade at 702.50 at the close. FSK EES (MCX:FEES) declined 4.17% or 0.0074 points to end at 0.1690 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was down 3.89% or 0.0354 points to 0.8752.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 140 to 93 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.35% to 26.580.
Gold for December delivery was down 0.35% or 4.45 to $1265.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 2.32% or 1.13 to hit $49.82 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 2.10% or 1.07 to trade at $51.94 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.51% to 62.3545, while EUR/RUB fell 0.75% to 69.837.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.08% at 96.18.