Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 1.40%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which rose 2.80% or 21.0 points to trade at 770.0 at the close. Moskovskiy Kreditnyi Bank OAO (MCX:CBOM) added 1.54% or 0.070 points to end at 4.605 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was up 1.35% or 1.180 points to 88.700 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which lost 4.87% or 0.1955 points to trade at 3.8200 in late trade. United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) declined 4.10% or 1.230 points to end at 28.770 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) shed 3.93% or 87.00 points to 2128.00.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 132 to 76 and 18 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.20% to 26.090.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.68% or 8.90 to $1314.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.10% or 0.07 to hit $68.00 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.25% or 0.18 to trade at $73.54 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.27% to 63.1981, while EUR/RUB fell 1.00% to 75.7050.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 92.30.