Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 1.43%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 4.93% or 66.00 points to trade at 1404.00 at the close. Megion (MCX:MFGS) added 4.01% or 22.0 points to end at 570.0 and MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG) was up 3.94% or 0.0900 points to 2.3750 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which lost 6.74% or 53.5 points to trade at 740.0 in late trade. DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) declined 1.79% or 4.00 points to end at 220.00 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 1.40% or 0.0131 points to 0.9239.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 131 to 81 and 25 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.78% to 22.820.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.15% or 1.93 to $1265.27 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.36% or 0.18 to hit $49.74 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.15% or 0.08 to trade at $52.49 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.71% to 57.1184, while EUR/RUB rose 0.84% to 61.947.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.42% at 99.13.