Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.76%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 4.57% or 0.870 points to trade at 19.900 at the close. Meanwhile, Magnit (MCX:MGNT) added 4.10% or 460.0 points to end at 11680.0 and PhosAgro ao (MCX:PHOR) was up 3.85% or 80.0 points to 2159.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MVideo (MCX:MVID), which fell 11.82% or 25.60 points to trade at 191.00 at the close. Rosneft (MCX:ROSN) declined 3.63% or 8.65 points to end at 229.90 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was down 1.98% or 0.0013 points to 0.0630.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 110 to 79 and 10 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.06% to 32.510.
Gold for August delivery was up 0.06% or 0.70 to $1172.50 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.23% or 0.14 to hit $59.56 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.03 to trade at $63.23 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.65% to 55.054, while EUR/RUB rose 0.05% to 61.379.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.38% at 95.73.