Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 0.20%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which rose 4.75% or 0.0383 points to trade at 0.8448 at the close. Meanwhile, Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) added 1.65% or 3.26 points to end at 201.26 and Unipro (MCX:UPRO) was up 1.51% or 0.0400 points to 2.6900 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 2.98% or 17.6 points to trade at 572.4 at the close. PIK (MCX:PIKK) declined 1.84% or 6.80 points to end at 363.00 and MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) was down 1.56% or 209.0 points to 13180.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 121 to 95 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.69% to 24.630.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.47% or 6.05 to $1294.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.04% or 0.02 to hit $52.09 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.51% or 0.31 to trade at $60.95 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.85% to 66.3903, while EUR/RUB fell 0.93% to 75.6958.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.03% at 95.648.