Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 1.34%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN), which rose 4.44% or 13.95 points to trade at 328.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) added 3.19% or 3.56 points to end at 115.19 and AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) was up 3.18% or 5100 points to 165400 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which fell 1.87% or 18.50 points to trade at 973.00 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) declined 1.33% or 0.0345 points to end at 2.5600 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) was down 1.29% or 0.395 points to 30.255.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 136 to 71 and 28 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.61% to 26.260.
Gold for December delivery was up 0.33% or 4.55 to $1369.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in September rose 2.40% or 0.98 to hit $41.81 a barrel, while the October Brent oil contract rose 2.25% or 0.97 to trade at $44.07 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.78% to 65.7474, while EUR/RUB fell 0.97% to 73.197.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.19% at 95.67.