Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Manufacturing, Mining and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.54%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY), which rose 3.94% or 12.50 points to trade at 330.00 at the close. Meanwhile, PIK (MCX:PIKK) added 2.35% or 7.20 points to end at 313.00 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) was up 1.62% or 109.0 points to 6829.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 2.95% or 15.5 points to trade at 510.6 at the close. Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN) declined 2.73% or 19.0 points to end at 676.5 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was down 2.31% or 0.270 points to 11.395.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 108 to 101 and 27 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 2.29% to 19.670.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.06% or 0.78 to $1291.42 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.43% or 0.25 to hit $58.27 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.24% or 0.15 to trade at $63.17 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.21% to 58.3783, while EUR/RUB rose 0.16% to 69.2000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 93.05.