Investing.com – Russia stocks were lower after the close on Thursday, as losses in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX declined 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were VTB (MCX:VTBR), which rose 1.25% or 0.0008 points to trade at 0.0649 at the close. Meanwhile, MTS (MCX:MTSS) added 0.97% or 2.25 points to end at 233.25 and Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT) was up 0.94% or 2.00 points to 214.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG), which fell 3.74% or 31.0 points to trade at 797.0 at the close. MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN) declined 3.26% or 283.0 points to end at 8410.0 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was down 2.29% or 2.90 points to 123.85.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 105 to 98 and 19 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 3.88% to 21.050.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.31% or 3.85 to $1245.85 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 0.38% or 0.18 to hit $47.14 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 0.22% or 0.11 to trade at $49.59 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.25% to 58.8471, while EUR/RUB rose 0.65% to 68.4710.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.61% at 94.06.