Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.96%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which rose 5.34% or 229.0 points to trade at 4520.0 at the close. Meanwhile, United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) added 5.22% or 1.930 points to end at 38.900 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was up 3.65% or 8.10 points to 229.90 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 6.39% or 36.4 points to trade at 533.4 at the close. Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) declined 2.85% or 2.70 points to end at 92.00 and Yevroplan PAO (MCX:EPLN) was down 2.07% or 15.5 points to 731.5.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 108 to 96 and 21 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.54% to 19.360.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.46% or 5.70 to $1254.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in January rose 0.25% or 0.14 to hit $56.74 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.54% or 0.34 to trade at $62.78 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.47% to 58.8944, while EUR/RUB rose 0.03% to 69.3400.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.33% at 93.71.