Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.46%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 17.73% or 1.705 points to trade at 11.320 at the close. Meanwhile, Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) added 4.50% or 3.95 points to end at 91.75 and Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) was up 3.15% or 25.0 points to 817.5 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG), which fell 3.05% or 0.0855 points to trade at 2.7215 at the close. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 2.76% or 52.00 points to end at 1832.00 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) was down 2.12% or 0.915 points to 42.185.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 124 to 96 and 23 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.59% to 16.660.
Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.63% or 8.00 to $1278.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.15% or 0.09 to hit $58.27 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.20% or 0.13 to trade at $65.03 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.16% to 58.3694, while EUR/RUB fell 0.41% to 69.1234.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 92.98.