Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 1.13%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON), which rose 2.87% or 15.00 points to trade at 538.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) added 2.49% or 0.0930 points to end at 3.8300 and NK Rosneft PAO (MCX:ROSN) was up 2.44% or 7.55 points to 316.35 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polyus OAO (MCX:PLZL), which fell 1.85% or 84.0 points to trade at 4461.0 at the close. NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) declined 1.20% or 9.0 points to end at 738.0 and MVideo (MCX:MVID) was down 0.96% or 4.00 points to 412.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 135 to 69 and 17 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.46% to 21.820.
Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.06% or 0.80 to $1323.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.48% or 0.31 to hit $64.69 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.38% or 0.26 to trade at $69.02 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.59% to 57.3775, while EUR/RUB fell 0.61% to 70.5900.
The US Dollar Index Futures was unchanged 0.00% at 89.76.