Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 0.67% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which rose 5.19% or 15.20 points to trade at 308.20 at the close. Meanwhile, Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 3.55% or 2.88 points to end at 83.98 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was up 2.42% or 0.290 points to 12.295 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NMTP (MCX:NMTP), which fell 8.49% or 0.6550 points to trade at 7.0600 at the close. AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) declined 6.02% or 10250 points to end at 160100 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was down 4.62% or 0.0385 points to 0.7950.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 117 to 83 and 31 ended unchanged.
Shares in PIK (MCX:PIKK) rose to 5-year highs; rising 5.19% or 15.20 to 308.20.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.82% to 22.720.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.75% or 9.48 to $1265.88 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.29% or 0.63 to hit $49.53 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.89% or 0.46 to trade at $51.92 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.60% to 56.6237, while EUR/RUB fell 0.03% to 63.440.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.27% at 97.40.