Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 0.53%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p), which rose 3.13% or 6.70 points to trade at 220.60 at the close. Meanwhile, Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) added 2.54% or 9.05 points to end at 365.00 and Sberbank (MCX:SBER) was up 2.13% or 3.40 points to 163.40 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which fell 6.09% or 0.0136 points to trade at 0.2089 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 4.81% or 0.1840 points to end at 3.6400 and ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p) was down 3.80% or 50.5 points to 1279.5.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 125 to 89 and 20 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.55% to 26.910.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 1.06% or 13.25 to $1236.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 1.75% or 0.94 to hit $52.89 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 1.72% or 0.97 to trade at $55.39 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.71% to 58.6955, while EUR/RUB rose 0.44% to 61.721.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.34% at 102.09.