Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Friday, as losses in the Power, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX fell 1.68%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which rose 2.62% or 19.00 points to trade at 745.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Akron (MCX:AKRN) added 0.73% or 24.0 points to end at 3334.0 and PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) was up 0.62% or 15.0 points to 2425.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG), which fell 5.66% or 0.1360 points to trade at 2.2650 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 4.53% or 0.0450 points to end at 0.9490 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was down 4.02% or 0.0074 points to 0.1779.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 162 to 52 and 15 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 3.28% to 24.230.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 1.07% or 13.45 to $1266.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 1.03% or 0.53 to hit $52.23 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.71% or 0.39 to trade at $55.28 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.24% to 57.0944, while EUR/RUB rose 1.14% to 60.699.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 100.87.