Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which rose 5.40% or 353.0 points to trade at 6884.0 at the close. VTB (MCX:VTBR) added 2.56% or 0.0013 points to end at 0.0534 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was up 2.09% or 0.245 points to 11.975 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX), which lost 3.26% or 4.03 points to trade at 119.50 in late trade. MVideo (MCX:MVID) declined 2.87% or 11.70 points to end at 396.30 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) shed 2.73% or 0.0990 points to 3.5235.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 119 to 100 and 20 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.33% to 17.890.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.00% or 12.76 to $1290.96 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 2.36% or 1.30 to hit $56.44 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 2.02% or 1.24 to trade at $62.60 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.83% to 59.1825, while EUR/RUB fell 0.61% to 69.8098.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 93.58.