Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 0.15%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which rose 5.88% or 228.0 points to trade at 4108.0 at the close. Meanwhile, NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) added 2.43% or 13.5 points to end at 569.5 and VTB (MCX:VTBR) was up 1.01% or 0.0005 points to 0.0478 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MMK (MCX:MAGN), which fell 3.32% or 1.450 points to trade at 42.230 at the close. NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) declined 3.32% or 5.11 points to end at 148.59 and Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) was down 2.40% or 16.15 points to 658.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 103 to 103 and 20 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 4.53% to 24.480.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.38% or 4.80 to $1251.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.91% or 0.66 to hit $73.42 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.19% or 0.15 to trade at $77.31 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.36% to 62.9850, while EUR/RUB fell 0.26% to 72.9175.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.11% at 94.92.