Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms, Manufacturing and Power sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.65%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 8.47% or 1.055 points to trade at 13.505 at the close. Meanwhile, Megion (MCX:MFGS) added 4.97% or 26.0 points to end at 549.0 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 4.92% or 0.0357 points to 0.7617 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which fell 2.76% or 42.00 points to trade at 1478.00 at the close. PIK (MCX:PIKK) declined 2.50% or 7.70 points to end at 300.50 and Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) was down 2.41% or 22.0 points to 892.5.
Falling stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 111 to 105 and 20 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 2.38% to 25.830.
Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.74% or 9.40 to $1276.40 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in July fell 0.99% or 0.48 to hit $47.88 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract fell 0.87% or 0.44 to trade at $50.19 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.42% to 56.6326, while EUR/RUB rose 1.20% to 63.932.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.46% at 96.71.