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 0.33%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 5.40% or 7.55 points to trade at 147.25 at the close. Meanwhile, Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) added 3.80% or 83.50 points to end at 2283.50 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) was up 2.10% or 0.0780 points to 3.7955 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which fell 3.71% or 0.0330 points to trade at 0.8555 at the close. MVideo (MCX:MVID) declined 2.10% or 9.30 points to end at 434.20 and Gazprom PAO (MCX:GAZP) was down 1.32% or 1.83 points to 137.06.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 128 to 88 and 14 ended unchanged.
Shares in Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) rose to all time highs; gaining 3.80% or 83.50 to 2283.50.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.27% to 22.780.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.32% or 4.40 to $1353.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 0.08% or 0.05 to hit $60.55 a barrel, while the April Brent oil contract fell 0.81% or 0.52 to trade at $63.84 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.32% to 56.5280, while EUR/RUB fell 0.12% to 70.5528.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.25% at 88.69.