Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Manufacturing, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX gained 0.69%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Surgut (MCX:SNGS), which rose 4.20% or 1.340 points to trade at 33.280 at the close. Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) added 3.70% or 1.200 points to end at 33.600 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was up 3.40% or 2.21 points to 67.20 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p), which lost 4.82% or 66.0 points to trade at 1304.0 in late trade. Bashneft ANK ao (MCX:BANE) declined 3.11% or 60.0 points to end at 1869.0 and E.ON Russia (MCX:EONR) shed 2.17% or 0.0630 points to 2.8400.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 126 to 69 and 10 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.93% to 29.060 a new 6-month low.
In commodities trading, Gold for August delivery was down 0.32% or 3.70 to $1143.70 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.41% or 0.21 to hit $51.20 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.18% or 0.10 to trade at $57.23 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.19% to 56.764, while EUR/RUB fell 0.94% to 61.797.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.48% at 97.75.