Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 0.77%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 11.05% or 60.4 points to trade at 607.0 at the close. Meanwhile, AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) added 5.71% or 9400 points to end at 174000 and NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) was up 3.28% or 19.0 points to 599.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Unipro (MCX:UPRO), which fell 3.62% or 0.0960 points to trade at 2.5540 at the close. Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL) declined 2.28% or 124.5 points to end at 5343.5 and X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR) was down 1.48% or 24.0 points to 1592.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 119 to 110 and 14 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.62% to 19.400 a new 6-months low.
Gold Futures for April delivery was up 0.51% or 6.65 to $1301.75 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in April fell 0.38% or 0.22 to hit $58.39 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract fell 0.62% or 0.42 to trade at $66.81 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.71% to 65.0483, while EUR/RUB fell 0.52% to 73.6300.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.20% at 96.575.