Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.94% to hit a new 1-month low.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 2.73% or 19.00 points to trade at 715.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR) added 1.76% or 14 points to end at 809 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was up 1.71% or 24.00 points to 1425.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which fell 3.52% or 13.40 points to trade at 367.10 at the close. MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) declined 2.38% or 237.0 points to end at 9720.0 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was down 2.37% or 2.400 points to 99.000.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 123 to 98 and 24 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.72% to 25.060.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.16% or 1.95 to $1239.65 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.37% or 0.20 to hit $53.16 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.14% or 0.08 to trade at $55.57 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.52% to 58.4737, while EUR/RUB rose 1.48% to 62.097.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.44% at 100.89.