Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.16%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 2.49% or 18.0 points to trade at 742.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Unipro (MCX:UPRO) added 2.39% or 0.0680 points to end at 2.9100 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was up 2.34% or 0.0042 points to 0.1812 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which fell 2.78% or 3.55 points to trade at 124.05 at the close. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 2.33% or 0.1850 points to end at 7.7650 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) was down 1.33% or 5.50 points to 406.50.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 131 to 78 and 20 ended unchanged.
Shares in Unipro (MCX:UPRO) rose to 52-week highs; rising 2.39% or 0.0680 to 2.9100.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.16% to 21.260.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.06% or 0.80 to $1325.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.79% or 0.51 to hit $64.89 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.03 to trade at $69.44 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.03% to 57.2425, while EUR/RUB rose 0.04% to 70.5250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 89.75.