Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.12%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Ros Agro PLC (MCX:AGRODR), which rose 1.51% or 11 points to trade at 740 at the close. Meanwhile, Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) added 1.43% or 7.0 points to end at 496.0 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was up 1.34% or 32.00 points to 2415.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 0.84% or 5.0 points to trade at 593.4 at the close. NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) declined 0.84% or 3.65 points to end at 432.00 and VTB (MCX:VTBR) was down 0.56% or 0.0002 points to 0.0358.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 117 to 98 and 28 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.86% to 19.690.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.01% or 0.01 to $1277.90 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.38% or 0.24 to hit $64.00 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.04% or 0.03 to trade at $71.95 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.25% to 64.0539, while EUR/RUB rose 0.30% to 72.0475.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.49% at 97.132.