Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 0.46%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were AFK Sistema (MCX:AFKS), which rose 17.73% or 1.705 points to trade at 11.320 at the close. Detskiy Mir PAO (MCX:DSKY) added 4.50% or 3.95 points to end at 91.75 and Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) was up 3.15% or 25.0 points to 817.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MosEnrg (MCX:MSNG), which lost 3.05% or 0.0855 points to trade at 2.7215 in late trade. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 2.76% or 52.00 points to end at 1832.00 and MMK (MCX:MAGN) shed 2.12% or 0.915 points to 42.185.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 124 to 96 and 23 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.59% to 16.660.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was up 0.63% or 8.00 to $1278.60 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February fell 0.15% or 0.09 to hit $58.27 a barrel, while the February Brent oil contract rose 0.20% or 0.13 to trade at $65.03 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.16% to 58.3694, while EUR/RUB fell 0.41% to 69.1234.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.15% at 92.98.