Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Manufacturing sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.89%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which rose 2.91% or 8.60 points to trade at 304.45 at the close. Meanwhile, Sberbank (MCX:SBER) added 2.57% or 1.90 points to end at 75.80 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 2.13% or 0.0114 points to 0.5459 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF), which fell 4.17% or 23.90 points to trade at 548.70 at the close. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) declined 4.15% or 1.700 points to end at 39.300 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was down 3.60% or 2.30 points to 61.60.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 131 to 53 and 9 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 3.68% to 36.340.
Gold for June delivery was up 0.38% or 4.50 to $1191.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 3.22% or 1.81 to hit $57.97 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 3.37% or 2.12 to trade at $64.84 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 2.21% to 51.047, while EUR/RUB fell 1.37% to 55.302.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.73% at 97.53.