Investing.com – Russia stocks were mixed after the close on Friday, as gains in the Power, Manufacturing and Mining sectors led shares higher while losses in the Telecom, Oil and Gas and Mining sectors led shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the RTSI rose 0.43%, while the MICEX index lost 0.29%.
The best performers of the session on the RTSI were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI), which rose 8.15% or 0.0448 points to trade at 0.5948 at the close. Meanwhile, GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) added 6.08% or 0.0360 points to end at 0.6285 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) was up 4.29% or 0.0028 points to 0.0680 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK), which fell 2.10% or 11.10 points to trade at 518.10 at the close. PIK (MCX:PIKK) declined 2.06% or 4.10 points to end at 194.50 and MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) was down 1.92% or 20.00 points to 1020.00.
The top performers on the MICEX were Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) which rose 8.15% to 0.5948, GidroOGK-011D (MCX:HYDR) which was up 6.08% to settle at 0.6285 and FSK EES (MCX:FEES) which gained 4.29% to close at 0.0680.
The worst performers were NOVATEK (MCX:NVTK) which was down 2.10% to 518.10 in late trade, PIK (MCX:PIKK) which lost 2.06% to settle at 194.50 and MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON) which was down 1.92% to 1020.00 at the close.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 89 to 55 and 5 ended unchanged.
Gold for April delivery was unchanged 0.00% or 0.00 to $1207.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude Oil for delivery in April fell 0.60% or 0.31 to hit $51.52 a barrel, while the April Brent Oil contract rose 0.12% or 0.07 to trade at $60.28 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.03% to 61.951, while EUR/RUB rose 0.18% to 70.497.
The US Dollar Index was down 0.01% at 94.47.