Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.79%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR), which rose 2.45% or 0.0195 points to trade at 0.8150 at the close. Meanwhile, Polyus Zoloto OAO (MCX:PLZL) added 2.31% or 97.0 points to end at 4300.0 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 2.18% or 0.0190 points to 0.8900 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which fell 3.05% or 54.50 points to trade at 1731.50 at the close. Surgut (MCX:SNGS) declined 2.68% or 0.725 points to end at 26.325 and Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) was down 2.61% or 22.20 points to 828.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 138 to 83 and 15 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 8.43% to 19.770.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.19% or 2.50 to $1292.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.23% or 0.11 to hit $48.48 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.23% or 0.12 to trade at $51.78 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.46% to 59.8407, while EUR/RUB rose 0.38% to 70.6380.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.29% at 93.03.