Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.66%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which rose 1.77% or 0.710 points to trade at 40.750 at the close. MMK (MCX:MAGN) added 1.71% or 0.770 points to end at 45.870 and MTS (MCX:MTSS) was up 1.54% or 4.45 points to 292.95 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which lost 3.92% or 3.32 points to trade at 81.48 in late trade. Magnit (MCX:MGNT) declined 3.03% or 224.0 points to end at 7175.0 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) shed 2.57% or 1.950 points to 74.050.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 125 to 100 and 18 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 6.48% to 17.910.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.85% or 10.90 to $1276.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.44% or 0.25 to hit $56.92 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.28% or 0.18 to trade at $63.75 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.20% to 59.1681, while EUR/RUB fell 0.09% to 68.9500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.12% at 94.31.