Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p), which rose 4.47% or 55.0 points to trade at 1285.0 at the close. Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) added 2.51% or 4.30 points to end at 175.30 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was up 2.06% or 2.60 points to 128.80 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA), which lost 3.68% or 5.35 points to trade at 140.15 in late trade. AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) declined 3.24% or 0.375 points to end at 11.200 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 2.10% or 0.0206 points to 0.9593.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 111 to 106 and 14 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.43% to 20.840.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.19% or 2.43 to $1293.43 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.05% or 0.50 to hit $48.33 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 1.16% or 0.60 to trade at $52.47 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.04% to 59.0648, while EUR/RUB rose 0.27% to 69.7002.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 93.20.