Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 1.32%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 4.79% or 25.6 points to trade at 560.0 at the close. Meanwhile, United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) added 3.53% or 1.035 points to end at 30.335 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was up 3.30% or 5.02 points to 157.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which fell 2.07% or 11.2 points to trade at 528.6 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 1.33% or 0.0103 points to end at 0.7638 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was down 0.91% or 0.74 points to 80.30.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 147 to 82 and 9 ended unchanged.
Shares in Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) fell to 3-years lows; losing 0.91% or 0.74 to 80.30.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 3.66% to 26.580.
Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.06% or 0.80 to $1280.30 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.19% or 0.53 to hit $45.14 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.25% or 0.13 to trade at $52.86 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.07% to 69.5185, while EUR/RUB rose 0.21% to 79.7100.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 95.933.