Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Manufacturing, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 1.27%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were FSK EES (MCX:FEES), which rose 3.04% or 0.0020 points to trade at 0.0664 at the close. Meanwhile, MMK (MCX:MAGN) added 2.93% or 0.540 points to end at 18.950 and Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) was up 2.35% or 14.30 points to 623.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were PIK (MCX:PIKK), which fell 6.44% or 10.40 points to trade at 151.20 at the close. Sollers (MCX:SVAV) declined 6.32% or 24.0 points to end at 356.0 and ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) was down 4.85% or 3.400 points to 66.700.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 125 to 71 and 9 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 2.64% to 33.080.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.83% or 9.10 to $1085.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.89% or 0.43 to hit $48.02 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 1.44% or 0.80 to trade at $54.48 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.03% to 58.469, while EUR/RUB rose 1.28% to 64.188.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.11% at 97.39.