Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.33%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 2.91% or 60.50 points to trade at 2137.00 at the close. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) added 1.87% or 0.570 points to end at 31.050 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 1.52% or 1.71 points to 114.30 in late trade.
Biggest losers included VTB (MCX:VTBR), which lost 4.99% or 0.0025 points to trade at 0.0474 in late trade. X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) declined 3.32% or 60.0 points to end at 1748.0 and Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) shed 2.87% or 20 points to 694.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 110 to 102 and 18 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.92% to 23.690.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.32% or 4.10 to $1296.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.84% or 0.56 to hit $66.48 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.01% or 0.78 to trade at $76.78 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.45% to 62.1230, while EUR/RUB fell 0.62% to 72.5250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 94.09.