Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT), which rose 3.29% or 1.75 points to trade at 55.00 at the close. Bashneft ANK ao (MCX:BANE) added 2.91% or 58.5 points to end at 2070.0 and Verhnesald MPO (MCX:VSMO) was up 2.60% or 320.0 points to 12620.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which lost 3.14% or 0.0146 points to trade at 0.4504 in late trade. Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) declined 2.85% or 1.65 points to end at 56.20 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) shed 2.47% or 0.0335 points to 1.3205.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 113 to 112 and 7 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.11% to 44.710 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 0.55% or 6.00 to $1091.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.23% or 0.07 to hit $30.51 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.52% or 0.47 to trade at $30.48 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.40% to 76.244, while EUR/RUB rose 0.25% to 83.059.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.08% at 99.10.