Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.79%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Aeroflot (MCX:AFLT), which rose 5.06% or 4.90 points to trade at 101.78 at the close. Meanwhile, Unipro (MCX:UPRO) added 4.25% or 0.1150 points to end at 2.8200 and NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) was up 3.69% or 15.8 points to 444.4 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO), which fell 1.35% or 0.0540 points to trade at 3.9445 at the close. Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) declined 0.74% or 4.60 points to end at 619.40 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was down 0.70% or 1.12 points to 157.94.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 101 to 92 and 25 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 1.34% to 25.740.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.19% or 2.40 to $1233.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.71% or 0.45 to hit $63.24 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.11% or 0.08 to trade at $72.81 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.71% to 66.1918, while EUR/RUB rose 0.52% to 75.3518.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.26% at 96.33.