Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX lost 1.62%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY), which rose 2.62% or 7.90 points to trade at 309.40 at the close. AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) added 2.42% or 0.535 points to end at 22.600 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 2.09% or 0.0450 points to 2.1950 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Sberbank (MCX:SBER), which lost 4.38% or 6.11 points to trade at 133.50 in late trade. Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) declined 4.12% or 4.03 points to end at 93.75 and Akron (MCX:AKRN) shed 3.86% or 145.0 points to 3610.0.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 131 to 83 and 22 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.92% to 34.540.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was up 0.16% or 2.05 to $1274.75 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 2.55% or 1.29 to hit $49.27 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 2.41% or 1.25 to trade at $50.70 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 1.14% to 65.0729, while EUR/RUB rose 0.89% to 73.408.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.35% at 94.43.