Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.76%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 4.27% or 1.000 points to trade at 24.400 at the close. MTS (MCX:MTSS) added 1.94% or 5.00 points to end at 262.95 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was up 1.18% or 15.00 points to 1286.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p), which lost 3.01% or 3.86 points to trade at 124.26 in late trade. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 2.94% or 0.0370 points to end at 1.2230 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) shed 2.43% or 240.0 points to 9640.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 121 to 97 and 21 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.98% to 25.280.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.45% or 5.45 to $1194.35 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.70% or 0.37 to hit $52.64 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.50% or 0.28 to trade at $55.73 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.50% to 59.6457, while EUR/RUB rose 0.45% to 63.373.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.08% at 101.38.