Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX added 1.65%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were DIXY Group ao (MCX:DIXY), which rose 4.78% or 13.00 points to trade at 285.00 at the close. Meanwhile, Rosneft (MCX:ROSN) added 3.34% or 13.00 points to end at 402.00 and Lukoil (MCX:LKOH) was up 3.24% or 109.5 points to 3486.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG), which fell 2.08% or 0.0615 points to trade at 2.9000 at the close. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) declined 1.64% or 0.555 points to end at 33.255 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) was down 1.20% or 120.0 points to 9900.0.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 145 to 73 and 22 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.53% to 24.440.
Gold for February delivery was down 0.28% or 3.35 to $1186.45 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in March fell 1.82% or 0.98 to hit $52.80 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract fell 2.06% or 1.16 to trade at $55.08 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 1.05% to 59.7950, while EUR/RUB fell 0.63% to 63.919.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.10% at 100.62.