Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.64% to hit a new 6-months high.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were MTS (MCX:MTSS), which rose 3.01% or 8.55 points to trade at 293.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) added 2.69% or 22.0 points to end at 840.0 and Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) was up 2.54% or 9.70 points to 391.70 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which fell 1.53% or 0.0530 points to trade at 3.4100 at the close. United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) declined 1.51% or 0.630 points to end at 41.210 and Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) was down 1.22% or 9.5 points to 770.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 129 to 87 and 22 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.92% to 18.560.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.27% or 3.50 to $1322.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.51% or 0.96 to hit $64.53 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.79% or 0.55 to trade at $69.75 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.64% to 56.6570, while EUR/RUB rose 0.05% to 68.2000.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.51% at 91.64.