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 0.69%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 3.92% or 27.60 points to trade at 731.80 at the close. GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) added 3.63% or 0.0281 points to end at 0.8012 and MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG) was up 3.47% or 0.0910 points to 2.7100 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Unipro (MCX:UPRO), which lost 2.99% or 0.0700 points to trade at 2.2700 in late trade. Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) declined 2.77% or 11.10 points to end at 389.90 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) shed 2.51% or 0.0975 points to 3.7915.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 118 to 102 and 14 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 7.18% to 22.090.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.20% or 15.20 to $1277.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 0.41% or 0.20 to hit $49.37 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 0.63% or 0.33 to trade at $52.47 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.47% to 60.1050, while EUR/RUB rose 0.36% to 70.5490.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.04% at 93.52.