Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Manufacturing sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.08%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR), which rose 2.86% or 72.0 points to trade at 2589.0 at the close. Meanwhile, RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR) added 2.82% or 0.0175 points to end at 0.6375 and Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) was up 2.64% or 18.80 points to 730.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p), which fell 13.04% or 5.400 points to trade at 36.000 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 3.32% or 0.0905 points to end at 2.6350 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was down 2.17% or 0.0032 points to 0.1455.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 114 to 98 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.36% to 32.810.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.10% or 1.35 to $1330.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.39% or 0.18 to hit $45.86 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.42% or 0.20 to trade at $47.57 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.97% to 63.4331, while EUR/RUB rose 0.35% to 70.171.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.56% at 96.64.