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 0.48%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which rose 8.37% or 0.0139 points to trade at 0.1800 at the close. Meanwhile, Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) added 7.15% or 0.0597 points to end at 0.8944 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was up 2.15% or 1.750 points to 83.000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which fell 3.67% or 11.30 points to trade at 296.50 at the close. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) declined 2.04% or 12.3 points to end at 590.0 and Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) was down 2.00% or 2.00 points to 98.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 109 to 105 and 24 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.23% to 17.740.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.57% or 7.50 to $1334.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.03% or 0.66 to hit $63.29 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.01% or 0.70 to trade at $68.61 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.26% to 56.6646, while EUR/RUB rose 0.33% to 69.3583.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 90.32.