Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 1.35%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which rose 1.49% or 27.5 points to trade at 1871.5 at the close. Meanwhile, Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 0.94% or 0.80 points to end at 85.60 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was up 0.46% or 1.50 points to 326.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which fell 3.31% or 23.0 points to trade at 671.0 at the close. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) declined 3.24% or 1.070 points to end at 31.980 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was down 2.91% or 0.0240 points to 0.8000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 136 to 69 and 20 ended unchanged.
Shares in Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) rose to 3-years highs; gaining 0.94% or 0.80 to 85.60.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.71% to 21.040.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.04% or 0.50 to $1291.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.73% or 0.53 to hit $71.67 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.45% or 0.36 to trade at $79.21 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.27% to 61.3771, while EUR/RUB fell 0.37% to 71.8040.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 93.94.