Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Thursday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Manufacturing sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.82%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p), which rose 3.99% or 4.50 points to trade at 117.40 at the close. AK Transneft OAO Pref (MCX:TRNF_p) added 3.81% or 6650 points to end at 181050 and Gruppa LSR PAO (MCX:LSRG) was up 3.41% or 28.5 points to 863.5 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Uralkaliy (MCX:URKA), which lost 3.24% or 5.05 points to trade at 150.80 in late trade. Unipro (MCX:UPRO) declined 1.55% or 0.0410 points to end at 2.5960 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) shed 1.49% or 0.0131 points to 0.8641.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 133 to 83 and 19 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 0.71% to 22.670.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.19% or 2.40 to $1281.00 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $50.86 a barrel, while the June Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.15 to trade at $53.08 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.77% to 56.1469, while EUR/RUB fell 0.16% to 60.482.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.16% at 99.55.