Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.20%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Sollers (MCX:SVAV), which rose 1.83% or 8.0 points to trade at 445.0 at the close. Meanwhile, E.ON Russia (MCX:EONR) added 1.77% or 0.0510 points to end at 2.9300 and PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) was up 1.71% or 35.0 points to 2079.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR), which fell 3.30% or 0.0181 points to trade at 0.5304 at the close. Rosneft (MCX:ROSN) declined 3.05% or 7.50 points to end at 238.55 and Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA) was down 2.46% or 3.50 points to 139.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 110 to 66 and 12 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.83% to 32.890.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.03% or 0.40 to $1172.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 1.23% or 0.74 to hit $59.53 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 1.00% or 0.64 to trade at $62.85 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.31% to 54.683, while EUR/RUB rose 0.43% to 61.297.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.02% at 95.42.