Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 1.40%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which rose 2.80% or 21.0 points to trade at 770.0 at the close. Meanwhile, Moskovskiy Kreditnyi Bank OAO (MCX:CBOM) added 1.54% or 0.070 points to end at 4.605 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was up 1.35% or 1.180 points to 88.700 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which fell 4.87% or 0.1955 points to trade at 3.8200 at the close. United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) declined 4.10% or 1.230 points to end at 28.770 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was down 3.93% or 87.00 points to 2128.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 132 to 76 and 18 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.20% to 26.090.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.68% or 8.90 to $1314.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.10% or 0.07 to hit $68.00 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.25% or 0.18 to trade at $73.54 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.27% to 63.1981, while EUR/RUB fell 1.00% to 75.7050.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 92.30.