Russian stock market finishes out week down for first time since beginning of year
MOSCOW. Feb 10 (Interfax) - The Russian stock market wrapped up the week down for the first time since the beginning of the year, as the EU decided to postpone voting on Greece's financial aid package.
By the end of the day on Friday, the RTS stock index had fallen 2.1% to 1603.25 points, and the MICEX index had dropped 1.1% to 1525.17 points. The majority of benchmark stocks on the MICEX-RTS stock exchange had decreased by up to 4%.
For the week as a whole, the RTS index was down 1.4%, and the MICEX index was down 2.5%.
Friday's losers included VTB (-1.9%), Gazprom (-0.3%), NOVATEK (-1.9%), MMC Norilsk Nickel (-2.2%), Polyus Gold (-1.3%), Rosneft (-0.2%), Rostelecom (-0.3%), Sberbank of Russia (-1.4%), Surgutneftegas (-3.7%), Tatneft (-1.3%) and FGC UES (-4%).
Gainers were Lukoil (+0.3%), Gazprom Neft (+0.9%) and Transneft (+1.6%).