Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Mining, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 0.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 4.47% or 98.00 points to trade at 2290.50 at the close. NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 3.25% or 21.0 points to end at 668.0 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.18% or 0.0256 points to 0.8301 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which lost 1.96% or 225.0 points to trade at 11275.0 in late trade. X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) declined 1.49% or 25.0 points to end at 1650.5 and Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM) shed 1.29% or 0.92 points to 70.50.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 125 to 84 and 25 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 55.64% to 10.570 a new all time low.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.22% or 2.80 to $1302.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.42% or 0.28 to hit $66.64 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.66% or 0.50 to trade at $76.38 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.80% to 62.3157, while EUR/RUB fell 0.79% to 73.4550.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 93.58.