Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 0.24%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which rose 5.92% or 29.6 points to trade at 530.0 at the close. Meanwhile, NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 5.87% or 22.4 points to end at 404.0 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) was up 3.85% or 15.40 points to 414.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which fell 3.11% or 0.945 points to trade at 29.450 at the close. Unipro (MCX:UPRO) declined 2.98% or 0.0760 points to end at 2.4730 and NMTP (MCX:NMTP) was down 2.17% or 0.1450 points to 6.5300.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 122 to 96 and 14 ended unchanged.
Shares in Unipro (MCX:UPRO) fell to 52-week lows; losing 2.98% or 0.0760 to 2.4730.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 6.33% to 24.140 a new 1-month low.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.49% or 6.15 to $1261.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.63% or 0.29 to hit $46.17 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 0.35% or 0.19 to trade at $54.16 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.70% to 68.8068, while EUR/RUB rose 0.20% to 78.4743.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.48% at 96.188.