Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 1.90%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Polyus Gold International Ltd (MCX:PGIL), which rose 6.87% or 13.80 points to trade at 214.70 at the close. Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) added 6.07% or 30.00 points to end at 524.50 and Gruppa Cherkizovo ao (MCX:GCHE) was up 2.30% or 20.0 points to 891.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which lost 6.18% or 1.260 points to trade at 19.120 in late trade. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) declined 4.98% or 15.40 points to end at 293.60 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) shed 4.93% or 0.0545 points to 1.0500.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 131 to 64 and 6 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.20% to 40.370 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold for December delivery was up 0.56% or 6.50 to $1159.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 2.66% or 1.10 to hit $40.22 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 2.54% or 1.19 to trade at $45.44 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.31% to 68.760, while EUR/RUB rose 2.48% to 78.186.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.96% at 94.85.