Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 1.70%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG), which rose 2.79% or 0.0630 points to trade at 2.3230 at the close. MMK (MCX:MAGN) added 1.55% or 0.520 points to end at 34.085 and Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) was up 1.44% or 8.50 points to 599.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which lost 4.61% or 8.69 points to trade at 180.01 in late trade. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 4.41% or 0.0520 points to end at 1.1280 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) shed 3.15% or 339.0 points to 10411.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 169 to 63 and 15 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.21% to 23.450.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was down 0.19% or 2.15 to $1131.05 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 0.76% or 0.40 to hit $52.89 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.95% or 0.52 to trade at $54.98 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.31% to 60.9600, while EUR/RUB fell 0.28% to 63.681.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.08% at 102.96.