Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Friday, as losses in the Oil & Gas, Manufacturing and Mining sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia declined 0.16%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 2.49% or 18.0 points to trade at 742.0 at the close. Unipro (MCX:UPRO) added 2.39% or 0.0680 points to end at 2.9100 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was up 2.34% or 0.0042 points to 0.1812 in late trade.
Biggest losers included SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which lost 2.78% or 3.55 points to trade at 124.05 in late trade. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 2.33% or 0.1850 points to end at 7.7650 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) shed 1.33% or 5.50 points to 406.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 131 to 78 and 20 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.16% to 21.260.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.06% or 0.80 to $1325.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.79% or 0.51 to hit $64.89 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.03 to trade at $69.44 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.03% to 57.2425, while EUR/RUB rose 0.04% to 70.5250.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.01% at 89.75.