Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Power, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.28%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p), which rose 4.12% or 50.0 points to trade at 1265.0 at the close. Meanwhile, PIK (MCX:PIKK) added 2.70% or 7.80 points to end at 296.60 and MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) was up 1.35% or 8.50 points to 639.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which fell 3.75% or 5.90 points to trade at 151.62 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 3.68% or 0.0359 points to end at 0.9398 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was down 3.55% or 0.0066 points to 0.1791.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 140 to 80 and 16 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.46% to 23.860.
Gold Futures for April delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $1245.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.22% or 0.11 to hit $50.46 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.38% or 0.20 to trade at $53.33 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.43% to 56.3368, while EUR/RUB fell 0.01% to 60.206.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.24% at 100.21.