Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 0.65%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p), which rose 5.77% or 10450 points to trade at 191500 at the close. Meanwhile, ALROSA ao (MCX:ALRS) added 4.43% or 3.950 points to end at 93.200 and DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY) was up 2.81% or 6.20 points to 227.00 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Megion (MCX:MFGS), which fell 4.31% or 25.0 points to trade at 555.0 at the close. Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY) declined 1.73% or 13.00 points to end at 740.00 and Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) was down 1.36% or 18.00 points to 1310.00.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 134 to 95 and 11 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.73% to 23.430.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.29% or 3.70 to $1287.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in June fell 2.72% or 1.38 to hit $49.33 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 2.43% or 1.29 to trade at $51.70 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.65% to 56.5748, while EUR/RUB fell 0.02% to 60.469.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.19% at 99.90.