Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms, Power and Manufacturing sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 0.49%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Megion (MCX:MFGS), which rose 2.66% or 14.0 points to trade at 540.0 at the close. Meanwhile, FSK EES (MCX:FEES) added 2.55% or 0.0040 points to end at 0.1627 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) was up 2.07% or 2.15 points to 106.15 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which fell 1.24% or 9.00 points to trade at 717.00 at the close. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 1.22% or 0.0850 points to end at 6.8550 and Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) was down 1.18% or 1.80 points to 150.13.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 110 to 81 and 16 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 4.86% to 25.890.
Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.59% or 7.55 to $1271.95 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.77% or 0.35 to hit $45.99 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.92% or 0.44 to trade at $48.30 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.11% to 56.9700, while EUR/RUB fell 0.26% to 63.7340.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.30% at 97.24.