Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Manufacturing and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA), which rose 3.41% or 4.75 points to trade at 144.00 at the close. PIK (MCX:PIKK) added 3.22% or 10.00 points to end at 321.00 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) was up 3.11% or 2.11 points to 69.99 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN), which lost 6.92% or 54.5 points to trade at 733.0 in late trade. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 4.50% or 7.25 points to end at 153.70 and MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG) shed 2.74% or 0.0830 points to 2.9480.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 127 to 100 and 14 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 3.47% to 17.520.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.14% or 1.82 to $1329.82 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October rose 1.60% or 0.79 to hit $50.09 a barrel, while the November Brent oil contract rose 0.80% or 0.44 to trade at $55.60 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.69% to 57.5587, while EUR/RUB fell 0.75% to 68.3718.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 92.32.