Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.15%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL), which rose 10.62% or 2.590 points to trade at 26.980 at the close. Meanwhile, Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) added 3.63% or 0.1450 points to end at 4.1450 and Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) was up 3.63% or 27.0 points to 770.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which fell 2.34% or 45.0 points to trade at 1880.0 at the close. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) declined 2.10% or 0.695 points to end at 32.450 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) was down 1.84% or 6.00 points to 320.00.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 123 to 92 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.44% to 21.840.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.15% or 1.90 to $1291.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 0.36% or 0.26 to hit $71.23 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract fell 0.34% or 0.27 to trade at $79.03 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.26% to 62.3380, while EUR/RUB rose 0.22% to 73.5025.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.12% at 93.50.