Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN), which rose 7.56% or 48.5 points to trade at 690.0 at the close. Meanwhile, MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) added 3.96% or 24.00 points to end at 629.70 and RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) was up 3.76% or 0.0308 points to 0.8500 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS), which fell 1.95% or 1.630 points to trade at 81.760 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) declined 1.84% or 2.16 points to end at 114.94 and Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) was down 1.82% or 12.00 points to 647.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 114 to 102 and 26 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 3.56% to 16.850 a new all time low.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 0.10% or 1.29 to $1289.09 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November fell 1.53% or 0.80 to hit $51.34 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 1.41% or 0.81 to trade at $56.76 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.21% to 58.0740, while EUR/RUB rose 0.06% to 68.4075.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.26% at 93.03.