Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.01%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which rose 3.10% or 4900 points to trade at 162900 at the close. Meanwhile, RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) added 2.09% or 0.0145 points to end at 0.7080 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) was up 1.90% or 6.00 points to 321.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Magnit (MCX:MGNT), which fell 4.34% or 455.0 points to trade at 10020.0 at the close. NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) declined 2.92% or 2.73 points to end at 90.80 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was down 1.63% or 0.0430 points to 2.5970.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 123 to 103 and 22 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.15% to 26.980.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.37% or 4.95 to $1333.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 2.33% or 1.00 to hit $41.92 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 2.50% or 1.13 to trade at $44.10 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.52% to 66.2878, while EUR/RUB rose 0.62% to 72.875.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.13% at 97.30.