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Russia stocks lower at close of trade; MOEX Russia down 0.54%
Published Aug 23, 2019 01:00PM ET
© Reuters. Russia stocks lower at close of trade; MOEX Russia down 0.54%
Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.54%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 5.93% or 3.45 points to trade at 61.60 at the close. Meanwhile, Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) added 4.17% or 19.2 points to end at 480.0 and NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) was up 3.02% or 10.9 points to 371.9 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which fell 3.46% or 1.90 points to trade at 53.00 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 2.73% or 0.0311 points to end at 1.1088 and X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) was down 1.89% or 41.5 points to 2153.0.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 121 to 84 and 26 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 3.98% to 21.930.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.89% or 28.55 to $1537.05 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in October fell 3.50% or 1.94 to hit $53.41 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract fell 2.25% or 1.35 to trade at $58.57 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.69% to 66.0581, while EUR/RUB rose 1.18% to 73.5852.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.45% at 97.618.
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