Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Mining, Oil & Gas and Power sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.09%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 5.90% or 6.85 points to trade at 122.95 at the close. Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) added 2.59% or 1.95 points to end at 77.30 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 2.39% or 0.0187 points to 0.8000 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which lost 3.23% or 17.0 points to trade at 510.0 in late trade. NMTP (MCX:NMTP) declined 2.60% or 0.1900 points to end at 7.1150 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) shed 1.95% or 96.0 points to 4825.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 123 to 89 and 11 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 0.25% to 31.770.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.73% or 9.90 to $1338.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in May rose 0.03% or 0.02 to hit $68.31 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract fell 0.07% or 0.05 to trade at $73.73 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.67% to 61.2809, while EUR/RUB rose 0.19% to 75.2645.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.47% at 90.06.