Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Power and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 0.97%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK), which rose 5.07% or 4.05 points to trade at 84.00 at the close. Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) added 5.05% or 0.1825 points to end at 3.7985 and NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) was up 4.93% or 29.0 points to 617.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN), which lost 6.22% or 50.5 points to trade at 761.5 in late trade. Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) declined 5.25% or 21.80 points to end at 393.50 and Magnit (MCX:MGNT) shed 3.73% or 192.0 points to 4957.0.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 120 to 96 and 20 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.21% to 24.550.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for April delivery was down 0.37% or 4.90 to $1312.90 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in April rose 1.72% or 1.05 to hit $62.24 a barrel, while the May Brent oil contract rose 1.41% or 0.92 to trade at $66.04 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.22% to 57.5812, while EUR/RUB rose 0.09% to 70.7382.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.10% at 90.23.