Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 1.54%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which rose 7.38% or 95.0 points to trade at 1382.0 at the close. Meanwhile, United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) added 5.44% or 1.480 points to end at 28.690 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was up 3.55% or 6.58 points to 191.85 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS), which fell 3.96% or 4.000 points to trade at 97.000 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 1.87% or 0.0740 points to end at 3.8840 and Severstal - ao (MCX:CHMF) was down 0.75% or 8.00 points to 1057.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 142 to 57 and 19 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 2.78% to 26.530.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.40% or 4.90 to $1222.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in November rose 0.08% or 0.06 to hit $71.03 a barrel, while the December Brent oil contract fell 0.60% or 0.48 to trade at $79.78 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.09% to 66.3262, while EUR/RUB fell 0.21% to 76.6500.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.25% at 94.93.