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 MICEX fell 1.46%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which rose 2.80% or 2.14 points to trade at 78.50 at the close. NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 0.19% or 1.5 points to end at 783.5 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) was up 0.10% or 0.40 points to 407.50 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which lost 7.10% or 134.00 points to trade at 1754.50 in late trade. SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) declined 4.67% or 6.75 points to end at 137.70 and VTB (MCX:VTBR) shed 3.96% or 0.0025 points to 0.0609.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 143 to 71 and 16 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.66% to 21.210.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.74% or 9.30 to $1269.30 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 1.41% or 0.69 to hit $49.73 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.96% or 1.01 to trade at $52.50 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.04% to 59.4747, while EUR/RUB rose 1.06% to 70.0025.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.58% at 93.23.