Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 0.48%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which rose 8.37% or 0.0139 points to trade at 0.1800 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) added 7.15% or 0.0597 points to end at 0.8944 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was up 2.15% or 1.750 points to 83.000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included PIK (MCX:PIKK), which lost 3.67% or 11.30 points to trade at 296.50 in late trade. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) declined 2.04% or 12.3 points to end at 590.0 and Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) shed 2.00% or 2.00 points to 98.00.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 109 to 105 and 24 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.23% to 17.740.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.57% or 7.60 to $1334.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 1.02% or 0.65 to hit $63.30 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 1.01% or 0.70 to trade at $68.61 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.27% to 56.6694, while EUR/RUB rose 0.34% to 69.3639.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.01% at 90.32.