Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.67% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which rose 5.19% or 15.20 points to trade at 308.20 at the close. Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 3.55% or 2.88 points to end at 83.98 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was up 2.42% or 0.290 points to 12.295 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NMTP (MCX:NMTP), which lost 8.49% or 0.6550 points to trade at 7.0600 in late trade. AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) declined 6.02% or 10250 points to end at 160100 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 4.62% or 0.0385 points to 0.7950.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 117 to 83 and 31 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.82% to 22.720.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.76% or 9.49 to $1265.89 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.27% or 0.62 to hit $49.52 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.89% or 0.46 to trade at $51.92 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.61% to 56.6219, while EUR/RUB fell 0.03% to 63.440.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 97.40.