Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Power, Oil & Gas and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.50%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 7.29% or 0.910 points to trade at 13.400 at the close. Meanwhile, MMK (MCX:MAGN) added 5.45% or 1.625 points to end at 31.460 and ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p) was up 4.35% or 48.0 points to 1151.0 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which fell 5.31% or 440.0 points to trade at 7850.0 at the close. Magnit (MCX:MGNT) declined 1.78% or 169.0 points to end at 9330.0 and Unipro (MCX:UPRO) was down 1.54% or 0.0390 points to 2.5000.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 132 to 74 and 20 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.26% to 25.570.
Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.52% or 6.45 to $1252.25 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 1.58% or 0.67 to hit $43.20 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 1.78% or 0.80 to trade at $45.62 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.85% to 59.7932, while EUR/RUB rose 0.97% to 66.9380.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.05% at 97.27.