Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.01%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which rose 2.55% or 1.77 points to trade at 71.19 at the close. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) added 2.46% or 9.95 points to end at 414.80 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 1.52% or 1.78 points to 119.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MVideo (MCX:MVID), which lost 2.08% or 8.90 points to trade at 419.40 in late trade. Magnit (MCX:MGNT) declined 1.55% or 156.0 points to end at 9914.0 and Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM) shed 1.49% or 1.01 points to 66.89.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 116 to 107 and 19 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.02% to 16.510.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.13% or 1.69 to $1276.21 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.81% or 0.41 to hit $50.01 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.38% or 0.21 to trade at $55.79 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.48% to 57.6361, while EUR/RUB fell 0.38% to 67.7968.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.14% at 93.29.