Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Power, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.25%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were SG mechel (MCX:MTLR), which rose 6.39% or 10.67 points to trade at 177.77 at the close. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) added 5.51% or 0.0501 points to end at 0.9600 and Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) was up 4.37% or 15.80 points to 377.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p), which lost 2.54% or 0.795 points to trade at 30.505 in late trade. Lukoil (MCX:LKOH) declined 2.32% or 67.0 points to end at 2818.0 and Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) shed 2.13% or 1.60 points to 73.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 123 to 85 and 18 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 0.09% to 22.450.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was up 0.15% or 1.90 to $1267.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in June rose 0.06% or 0.03 to hit $49.00 a barrel, while the July Brent oil contract rose 0.04% or 0.02 to trade at $51.84 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.10% to 56.9139, while EUR/RUB fell 0.13% to 62.123.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.13% at 98.89.