Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the MICEX Oil and Gas, MICEX Telecom and MICEX Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the RTSI fell 2.32%, while the MICEX index declined 1.57%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the RTSI were VTB (MCX:VTBR), which rose 5.56% or 0.0035 points to trade at 0.0672 at the close. RDR United Company RUSAL PLC (MCX:RUALR) added 5.28% or 23.40 points to end at 466.70 and Tatneft (pref) (MCX:TATN_p) was up 4.19% or 6.20 points to 154.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which lost 9.49% or 1070.0 points to trade at 10200.0 in late trade. MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) declined 5.14% or 52.00 points to end at 959.00 and Surgut (MCX:SNGS) shed 4.09% or 1.240 points to 29.100.
The top performers on the MICEX were VTB (MCX:VTBR) which rose 5.56% to 0.0672, RDR United Company RUSAL PLC (MCX:RUALR) which was up 5.28% to settle at 466.70 and Tatneft (pref) (MCX:TATN_p) which gained 4.19% to close at 154.20.
The worst performers were Magnit (MCX:MGNT) which was down 9.49% to 10200.0 in late trade, MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) which lost 5.14% to settle at 959.00 and Surgut (MCX:SNGS) which was down 4.09% to 29.100 at the close.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 77 to 67 and 9 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
In commodities trading, Gold for April delivery was down 0.39% or 5.10 to $1287.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude Oil for delivery in March fell 2.14% or 0.99 to hit $45.24 a barrel, while the March Brent Oil contract fell 0.66% or 0.33 to trade at $49.27 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.07% to 67.921, while EUR/RUB fell 0.08% to 76.908.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.29% at 94.53.