Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 1.07%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 4.70% or 32.6 points to trade at 726.0 at the close. NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) added 2.18% or 25.00 points to end at 1170.00 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 1.69% or 0.0665 points to 3.9920 in late trade.
Biggest losers included FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which lost 4.11% or 0.0065 points to trade at 0.1517 in late trade. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 3.89% or 0.2650 points to end at 6.5550 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) shed 3.49% or 1.735 points to 47.965.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 143 to 58 and 21 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.25% to 30.870 a new 3-month high.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.11% or 1.30 to $1192.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 2.11% or 1.58 to hit $73.38 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.78% or 1.51 to trade at $83.49 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.53% to 66.6127, while EUR/RUB rose 0.94% to 76.8700.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.31% at 95.06.