Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Telecoms and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 1.32%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which rose 4.79% or 25.6 points to trade at 560.0 at the close. United Company Rusal Plc (MCX:RUAL) added 3.53% or 1.035 points to end at 30.335 and NLMK ao (MCX:NLMK) was up 3.30% or 5.02 points to 157.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT), which lost 2.07% or 11.2 points to trade at 528.6 in late trade. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 1.33% or 0.0103 points to end at 0.7638 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) shed 0.91% or 0.74 points to 80.30.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 147 to 82 and 9 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 3.66% to 26.580.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for February delivery was down 0.05% or 0.60 to $1280.50 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in February rose 1.26% or 0.56 to hit $45.17 a barrel, while the March Brent oil contract rose 0.28% or 0.15 to trade at $52.88 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.06% to 69.5243, while EUR/RUB rose 0.21% to 79.7100.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.07% at 95.933.