Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.04%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 4.47% or 98.00 points to trade at 2290.50 at the close. Meanwhile, NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 3.25% or 21.0 points to end at 668.0 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.18% or 0.0256 points to 0.8301 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which fell 1.96% or 225.0 points to trade at 11275.0 at the close. X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) declined 1.49% or 25.0 points to end at 1650.5 and Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM) was down 1.29% or 0.92 points to 70.50.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 125 to 84 and 25 ended unchanged.
Shares in X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) fell to all time lows; losing 1.49% or 25.0 to 1650.5.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 54.85% to 10.760 a new all time low.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.22% or 2.80 to $1302.20 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.29% or 0.19 to hit $66.55 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.61% or 0.46 to trade at $76.34 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.77% to 62.3298, while EUR/RUB fell 0.79% to 73.4570.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 93.58.