Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 1.07%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 1.97% or 42.00 points to trade at 2176.00 at the close. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) added 1.19% or 0.1050 points to end at 8.9300 and Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) was up 1.08% or 6.20 points to 580.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which lost 10.23% or 631.0 points to trade at 5539.0 in late trade. AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) declined 2.78% or 0.345 points to end at 12.055 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 2.72% or 0.0249 points to 0.8902.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 164 to 57 and 18 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.13% to 19.320.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.76% or 10.40 to $1352.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.84% or 0.55 to hit $66.06 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.09% or 0.06 to trade at $70.48 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.37% to 56.1300, while EUR/RUB rose 0.50% to 69.7220.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.39% at 88.84.