Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.92%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON), which rose 0.97% or 5.70 points to trade at 593.80 at the close. Meanwhile, Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) added 0.97% or 12.00 points to end at 1252.00 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 0.74% or 0.0305 points to 4.1300 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which fell 4.96% or 22.15 points to trade at 424.25 at the close. Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) declined 3.36% or 8.20 points to end at 235.80 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) was down 3.07% or 345.0 points to 10875.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 116 to 89 and 23 ended unchanged.
Shares in Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) rose to 5-year highs; rising 0.74% or 0.0305 to 4.1300.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.52% to 25.040.
Gold for February delivery was up 1.49% or 17.35 to $1182.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.21% or 0.11 to hit $53.15 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 0.16% or 0.09 to trade at $56.37 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.12% to 59.7858, while EUR/RUB rose 0.08% to 63.316.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.97% at 101.50.