Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Telecoms, Power and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.47%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which rose 2.71% or 300.0 points to trade at 11350.0 at the close. Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) added 2.27% or 2.30 points to end at 103.40 and United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) was up 0.95% or 0.370 points to 39.170 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NMTP (MCX:NMTP), which lost 3.16% or 0.2800 points to trade at 8.5800 in late trade. Magnit (MCX:MGNT) declined 3.15% or 240.0 points to end at 7370.0 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) shed 2.99% or 59.50 points to 1932.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 136 to 80 and 24 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.93% to 15.950.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.02% or 0.28 to $1277.02 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.17% or 0.09 to hit $54.39 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.17% or 0.10 to trade at $60.59 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.06% to 58.3180, while EUR/RUB rose 0.37% to 67.9925.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.10% at 94.61.