Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Power sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 1.31%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which rose 3.29% or 0.0081 points to trade at 0.2562 at the close. NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) added 2.72% or 3.21 points to end at 121.26 and Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) was up 2.68% or 19.00 points to 728.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which lost 7.00% or 14100 points to trade at 187400 in late trade. Rosneft (MCX:ROSN) declined 2.99% or 11.65 points to end at 378.05 and United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) shed 2.60% or 0.880 points to 33.010.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 143 to 77 and 22 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.08% to 24.920.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.64% or 7.85 to $1243.95 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in March rose 0.58% or 0.30 to hit $52.47 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract rose 0.56% or 0.31 to trade at $55.36 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.27% to 59.1759, while EUR/RUB fell 0.39% to 63.330.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.28% at 100.11.