Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.31% to hit a new 6-month low.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Megion (MCX:MFGS), which rose 5.83% or 30.0 points to trade at 545.0 at the close. Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 4.80% or 3.74 points to end at 81.60 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 1.96% or 0.0755 points to 3.9365 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which lost 5.35% or 7.85 points to trade at 138.75 in late trade. GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) declined 3.55% or 0.0291 points to end at 0.7909 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) shed 2.16% or 0.0035 points to 0.1587.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 124 to 68 and 24 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.11% to 27.280.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 1.04% or 13.43 to $1279.77 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.35% or 0.16 to hit $45.88 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.12% or 0.06 to trade at $48.12 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.45% to 56.8318, while EUR/RUB fell 0.29% to 63.9030.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.28% at 96.94.