Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.09%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 5.90% or 6.85 points to trade at 122.95 at the close. Meanwhile, Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 2.59% or 1.95 points to end at 77.30 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 2.39% or 0.0187 points to 0.8000 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 3.23% or 17.0 points to trade at 510.0 at the close. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 2.60% or 0.1900 points to end at 7.1150 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) was down 1.95% or 96.0 points to 4825.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 123 to 89 and 11 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.28% to 31.760.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.74% or 10.00 to $1338.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.03% or 0.02 to hit $68.31 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.07% or 0.05 to trade at $73.73 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.67% to 61.2808, while EUR/RUB rose 0.19% to 75.2665.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.48% at 90.07.