Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.28%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 4.30% or 82.50 points to trade at 1999.00 at the close. Meanwhile, X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) added 3.87% or 59.5 points to end at 1598.5 and NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) was up 3.08% or 32.30 points to 1082.10 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which fell 1.34% or 5.8 points to trade at 428.6 at the close. Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) declined 1.27% or 1.97 points to end at 153.50 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) was down 1.07% or 0.515 points to 47.430.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 106 to 99 and 19 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.72% to 26.380.
Gold Futures for December delivery was up 1.85% or 22.40 to $1234.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 2.74% or 1.79 to hit $63.52 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 3.39% or 2.56 to trade at $72.91 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.24% to 65.7195, while EUR/RUB rose 0.38% to 74.8696.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.73% at 96.19.