Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Power, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.21%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which rose 3.97% or 14.75 points to trade at 386.50 at the close. Meanwhile, Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) added 2.83% or 23.70 points to end at 860.00 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 2.59% or 2.87 points to 113.87 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS), which fell 6.94% or 6.660 points to trade at 89.340 at the close. Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) declined 3.83% or 33.0 points to end at 828.0 and Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) was down 3.52% or 4.38 points to 120.11.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 128 to 74 and 12 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.92% to 21.480.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.08% or 1.03 to $1240.87 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.03% or 0.48 to hit $46.88 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.11% or 0.54 to trade at $49.38 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.30% to 59.0050, while EUR/RUB fell 0.69% to 68.0310.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 94.56.