Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 3.92% or 27.60 points to trade at 731.80 at the close. Meanwhile, RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) added 3.63% or 0.0281 points to end at 0.8012 and MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG) was up 3.47% or 0.0910 points to 2.7100 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unipro (MCX:UPRO), which fell 2.99% or 0.0700 points to trade at 2.2700 at the close. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) declined 2.77% or 11.10 points to end at 389.90 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was down 2.51% or 0.0975 points to 3.7915.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 118 to 102 and 14 ended unchanged.
Shares in Unipro (MCX:UPRO) fell to 52-week lows; down 2.99% or 0.0700 to 2.2700.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 7.18% to 22.090.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.20% or 15.21 to $1277.81 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.41% or 0.20 to hit $49.37 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.63% or 0.33 to trade at $52.47 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.47% to 60.1050, while EUR/RUB rose 0.36% to 70.5490.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.03% at 93.51.