Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 1.35%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were X5 Retail Group NV (MCX:FIVEDR), which rose 4.65% or 91.0 points to trade at 2050.0 at the close. Meanwhile, VTB (MCX:VTBR) added 2.83% or 0.0015 points to end at 0.0539 and Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) was up 3.02% or 6.45 points to 220.30 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which fell 4.26% or 5.80 points to trade at 130.40 at the close. NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) declined 1.97% or 11.0 points to end at 547.0 and AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS) was down 0.52% or 0.060 points to 11.440.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 123 to 87 and 21 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.64% to 21.720.
Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.85% or 11.40 to $1328.80 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.39% or 0.25 to hit $63.62 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.56% or 0.38 to trade at $68.40 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.47% to 57.7118, while EUR/RUB rose 0.12% to 70.6337.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.41% at 90.15.