Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Mining and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.03%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Rostelecom (MCX:RTKM), which rose 3.91% or 2.67 points to trade at 71.00 at the close. Meanwhile, MVideo (MCX:MVID) added 3.19% or 12.80 points to end at 414.00 and Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) was up 2.83% or 0.890 points to 32.290 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which fell 3.28% or 23.0 points to trade at 679.0 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) declined 1.86% or 2.10 points to end at 110.60 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was down 1.76% or 39.00 points to 2175.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 118 to 92 and 28 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 3.00% to 25.380.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.05% or 0.60 to $1302.00 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 1.75% or 1.13 to hit $65.86 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 2.26% or 1.70 to trade at $77.06 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.83% to 62.2953, while EUR/RUB rose 1.19% to 73.6025.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.27% at 93.36.