Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.21%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK), which rose 2.74% or 4.30 points to trade at 161.00 at the close. Meanwhile, ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) added 2.50% or 2.390 points to end at 98.110 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) was up 1.56% or 54.0 points to 3515.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which fell 3.90% or 26.4 points to trade at 650.2 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 2.25% or 0.0161 points to end at 0.7000 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was down 2.23% or 0.0034 points to 0.1510.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 138 to 60 and 18 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.10% to 29.070.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.34% or 4.20 to $1232.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.67% or 0.45 to hit $67.27 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract rose 0.49% or 0.37 to trade at $76.54 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.22% to 65.5351, while EUR/RUB fell 0.40% to 74.5200.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.24% at 96.41.