Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Power, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 0.21%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which rose 3.97% or 14.75 points to trade at 386.50 at the close. Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) added 2.83% or 23.70 points to end at 860.00 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 2.59% or 2.87 points to 113.87 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS), which lost 6.94% or 6.660 points to trade at 89.340 in late trade. Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) declined 3.83% or 33.0 points to end at 828.0 and Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) shed 3.52% or 4.38 points to 120.11.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 128 to 74 and 12 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.92% to 21.480.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.08% or 1.04 to $1240.86 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.03% or 0.48 to hit $46.88 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.11% or 0.54 to trade at $49.38 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.30% to 59.0050, while EUR/RUB fell 0.69% to 68.0310.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.13% at 94.57.