Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 0.83%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 5.47% or 29.00 points to trade at 559.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Sberbank (MCX:SBER) added 3.77% or 3.66 points to end at 100.66 and VTB (MCX:VTBR) was up 3.59% or 0.0026 points to 0.0750 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MMK (MCX:MAGN), which fell 3.61% or 0.745 points to trade at 19.920 at the close. Magnit (MCX:MGNT) declined 3.54% or 410.0 points to end at 11180.0 and Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) was down 2.46% or 16.60 points to 658.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 126 to 83 and 9 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 13.17% to 39.110.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.05% or 0.50 to $1074.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January fell 1.12% or 0.42 to hit $37.09 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 1.03% or 0.41 to trade at $39.84 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.49% to 68.965, while EUR/RUB rose 0.99% to 76.478.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.84% at 97.59.