Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Telecoms and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.24% to hit a new 1-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Surgut (MCX:SNGS), which rose 6.01% or 1.665 points to trade at 29.360 at the close. AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) added 3.87% or 6350 points to end at 170350 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) was up 3.77% or 2.95 points to 81.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which lost 3.88% or 0.0071 points to trade at 0.1759 in late trade. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 3.17% or 0.0273 points to end at 0.8335 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) shed 2.64% or 2.430 points to 89.690.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 115 to 95 and 19 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.33% to 23.730.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.17% or 2.17 to $1255.27 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 3.68% or 1.89 to hit $49.47 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 3.39% or 1.83 to trade at $52.13 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.49% to 56.6885, while EUR/RUB rose 0.46% to 63.462.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 97.05.