Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Lenta Ltd (MCX:LNTADR), which rose 3.11% or 12 points to trade at 398 at the close. NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) added 2.84% or 9.50 points to end at 344.50 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) was up 2.01% or 1.61 points to 81.79 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY), which lost 3.28% or 3.15 points to trade at 92.95 in late trade. ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) declined 2.26% or 1.900 points to end at 82.100 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) shed 2.23% or 1.000 points to 43.900.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 110 to 101 and 22 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.48% to 18.610.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 1.22% or 16.30 to $1353.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.65% or 0.42 to hit $64.89 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.07% or 0.05 to trade at $69.91 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.10% to 56.2985, while EUR/RUB rose 0.66% to 69.7538.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.85% at 89.12.