Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 1.33%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which rose 3.00% or 16.6 points to trade at 569.8 at the close. Meanwhile, Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) added 2.32% or 2.15 points to end at 94.70 and Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN) was up 2.19% or 16.0 points to 747.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which fell 8.08% or 377.0 points to trade at 4291.0 at the close. AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) declined 5.59% or 0.605 points to end at 10.220 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was down 4.84% or 6.00 points to 118.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 144 to 74 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.72% to 19.490.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.52% or 6.40 to $1248.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 0.82% or 0.47 to hit $56.67 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.41% or 0.89 to trade at $62.45 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.78% to 58.8354, while EUR/RUB fell 0.65% to 69.1975.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 93.91.