Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Telecoms, Power and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which rose 4.66% or 24.6 points to trade at 552.2 at the close. MVideo (MCX:MVID) added 3.95% or 15.90 points to end at 418.20 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 3.21% or 0.1275 points to 4.0950 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which lost 5.82% or 3.40 points to trade at 55.05 in late trade. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 5.56% or 0.0430 points to end at 0.7300 and GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) shed 3.87% or 0.0203 points to 0.5046.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 122 to 87 and 17 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.34% to 27.100.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.37% or 4.50 to $1225.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.26% or 0.65 to hit $50.80 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract fell 1.39% or 0.83 to trade at $59.08 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.32% to 67.0865, while EUR/RUB rose 0.71% to 75.9527.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.40% at 97.085.