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 MOEX Russia fell 1.35%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which rose 1.49% or 27.5 points to trade at 1871.5 at the close. Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 0.94% or 0.80 points to end at 85.60 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was up 0.46% or 1.50 points to 326.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which lost 3.31% or 23.0 points to trade at 671.0 in late trade. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) declined 3.24% or 1.070 points to end at 31.980 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 2.91% or 0.0240 points to 0.8000.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 136 to 69 and 20 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.71% to 21.040.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.05% or 0.60 to $1291.40 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.73% or 0.53 to hit $71.67 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.45% or 0.36 to trade at $79.21 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.27% to 61.3793, while EUR/RUB fell 0.37% to 71.8033.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.46% at 93.94.