Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.33%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 2.91% or 60.50 points to trade at 2137.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) added 1.87% or 0.570 points to end at 31.050 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 1.52% or 1.71 points to 114.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were VTB (MCX:VTBR), which fell 4.99% or 0.0025 points to trade at 0.0474 at the close. X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) declined 3.32% or 60.0 points to end at 1748.0 and Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) was down 2.87% or 20 points to 694.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 110 to 102 and 18 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.92% to 23.690.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.32% or 4.10 to $1296.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.84% or 0.56 to hit $66.48 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.01% or 0.78 to trade at $76.78 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.45% to 62.1230, while EUR/RUB fell 0.62% to 72.5250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 94.09.