Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 1.61%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 3.42% or 3.15 points to trade at 95.30 at the close. Meanwhile, PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) added 2.20% or 52.0 points to end at 2412.0 and Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) was up 0.90% or 5.6 points to 627.4 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER), which fell 4.84% or 9.09 points to trade at 178.71 at the close. VTB (MCX:VTBR) declined 3.74% or 0.0016 points to end at 0.0414 and Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) was down 3.37% or 5.46 points to 156.66.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 158 to 51 and 17 ended unchanged.
Shares in VTB (MCX:VTBR) fell to 3-years lows; losing 3.74% or 0.0016 to 0.0414.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.10% to 28.930.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.71% or 8.60 to $1194.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 0.28% or 0.19 to hit $67.67 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 0.12% or 0.09 to trade at $74.69 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.26% to 68.2071, while EUR/RUB fell 0.11% to 78.8121.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.47% at 95.45.