Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia lost 1.00%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON), which rose 4.09% or 24.00 points to trade at 611.00 at the close. MTS (MCX:MTSS) added 3.68% or 8.25 points to end at 232.25 and NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) was up 2.06% or 10.8 points to 535.6 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Lukoil (MCX:LKOH), which lost 3.13% or 165.0 points to trade at 5102.0 in late trade. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) declined 2.80% or 21.30 points to end at 738.70 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 2.14% or 0.0163 points to 0.7465.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 137 to 70 and 15 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.45% to 27.330.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.30% or 3.80 to $1251.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 1.59% or 0.82 to hit $52.47 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 1.61% or 0.97 to trade at $61.17 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.01% to 66.3741, while EUR/RUB rose 0.32% to 75.3790.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.35% at 97.015.