Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 0.85%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 6.26% or 4.18 points to trade at 71.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM) added 3.79% or 3.22 points to end at 88.23 and AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) was up 3.39% or 4420 points to 134890 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which fell 3.40% or 0.0405 points to trade at 1.1520 at the close. DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) declined 2.67% or 10.00 points to end at 365.00 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was down 1.71% or 17.00 points to 976.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 110 to 73 and 12 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 1.84% to 42.220 a new 1-month high.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.64% or 7.50 to $1167.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.43% or 0.25 to hit $57.75 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.54% or 0.34 to trade at $61.70 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.47% to 56.634, while EUR/RUB fell 0.83% to 62.929.
The US Dollar Index was up 1.00% at 96.45.