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 MICEX lost 1.92%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON), which rose 0.97% or 5.70 points to trade at 593.80 at the close. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) added 0.97% or 12.00 points to end at 1252.00 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 0.74% or 0.0305 points to 4.1300 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which lost 4.96% or 22.15 points to trade at 424.25 in late trade. Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) declined 3.36% or 8.20 points to end at 235.80 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) shed 3.07% or 345.0 points to 10875.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 116 to 89 and 23 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.48% to 25.050.
In commodities trading, Gold for February delivery was up 1.49% or 17.35 to $1182.65 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.21% or 0.11 to hit $53.15 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.14% or 0.08 to trade at $56.38 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.12% to 59.7858, while EUR/RUB rose 0.08% to 63.316.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.97% at 101.50.