Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which rose 2.34% or 3650 points to trade at 159650 at the close. Megion (MCX:MFGS) added 2.00% or 10.0 points to end at 510.0 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 1.90% or 1.94 points to 103.89 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which lost 4.35% or 3.54 points to trade at 77.86 in late trade. AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) declined 2.86% or 0.375 points to end at 12.730 and Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) shed 2.70% or 0.755 points to 27.245.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 122 to 88 and 17 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 14.77% to 29.840 a new 1-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.35% or 4.51 to $1292.99 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 4.77% or 2.30 to hit $45.89 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 3.83% or 1.92 to trade at $48.20 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.90% to 57.0433, while EUR/RUB rose 0.42% to 64.0920.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 96.74.