Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 1.62% to hit a new 6-months low.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were RusHydro JSC (MCX:HYDR), which rose 6.41% or 0.0500 points to trade at 0.8300 at the close. Meanwhile, MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG) added 2.76% or 0.0635 points to end at 2.3655 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was up 2.05% or 6.20 points to 308.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Surgut (MCX:SNGS), which fell 10.34% or 3.130 points to trade at 27.150 at the close. Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) declined 6.66% or 19.90 points to end at 279.00 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was down 5.54% or 6.40 points to 109.10.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 146 to 73 and 16 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.64% to 25.770 a new 1-month high.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.65% or 8.32 to $1263.68 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.10% or 0.53 to hit $48.85 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.69% or 0.35 to trade at $51.11 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.40% to 56.3380, while EUR/RUB fell 1.12% to 63.151.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 97.16.