Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 1.93%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which rose 3.01% or 23.0 points to trade at 788.0 at the close. Meanwhile, MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) added 2.54% or 14.00 points to end at 564.40 and Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) was up 2.26% or 2.00 points to 90.50 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p), which fell 3.98% or 16.70 points to trade at 402.80 at the close. NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) declined 3.40% or 25.00 points to end at 710.00 and MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) was down 3.39% or 391.0 points to 11159.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 118 to 78 and 26 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.05% to 22.440.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.22% or 2.90 to $1321.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 1.00% or 0.63 to hit $62.38 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 1.31% or 0.87 to trade at $65.65 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.08% to 56.2324, while EUR/RUB fell 0.21% to 68.7150.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.14% at 90.44.