Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER), which rose 2.06% or 4.55 points to trade at 225.95 at the close. Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT) added 1.40% or 2.20 points to end at 159.20 and Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) was up 0.61% or 0.65 points to 106.35 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which lost 11.21% or 779.0 points to trade at 6170.0 in late trade. VTB (MCX:VTBR) declined 5.63% or 0.0033 points to end at 0.0555 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) shed 5.15% or 0.635 points to 11.700.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 178 to 51 and 15 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.38% to 18.350.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.36% or 4.57 to $1278.33 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.65% or 0.36 to hit $55.34 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.51% or 0.32 to trade at $61.89 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.19% to 60.1169, while EUR/RUB fell 0.13% to 70.9285.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.02% at 93.74.