Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Wednesday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.52% to hit a new 6-months low.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 2.68% or 33.50 points to trade at 1284.00 at the close. Meanwhile, MVideo (MCX:MVID) added 0.11% or 0.40 points to end at 373.60 and NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) was unchanged 0.00% or 0.0 points to 800.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR), which fell 4.47% or 32 points to trade at 684 at the close. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) declined 3.89% or 1.220 points to end at 30.180 and Sberbank (MCX:SBER) was down 3.67% or 5.72 points to 150.28.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 163 to 35 and 21 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 10.76% to 26.660.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.18% or 2.35 to $1276.55 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May fell 0.60% or 0.32 to hit $53.08 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.75% or 0.42 to trade at $55.81 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.07% to 56.9590, while EUR/RUB fell 0.47% to 60.385.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.02% at 100.61.