Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 1.36%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX), which rose 1.13% or 1.03 points to trade at 92.53 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) added 0.92% or 0.0066 points to end at 0.7219 and Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) was up 0.81% or 5.00 points to 624.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which lost 3.25% or 75.00 points to trade at 2235.00 in late trade. NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) declined 3.09% or 5.30 points to end at 166.00 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) shed 3.01% or 1.95 points to 62.80.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 121 to 77 and 17 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.79% to 26.830.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.29% or 3.60 to $1231.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 0.52% or 0.36 to hit $69.39 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.35% or 0.28 to trade at $79.77 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.37% to 65.7370, while EUR/RUB rose 0.20% to 75.4375.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.22% at 95.56.