Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Friday, as gains in the Telecoms, Mining and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia gained 2.03%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were NMTP (MCX:NMTP), which rose 4.84% or 0.3000 points to trade at 6.5000 at the close. Sberbank Rossii PAO (MCX:SBER) added 4.56% or 9.50 points to end at 218.00 and NK RussNeft PAO (MCX:RNFT) was up 4.48% or 25.5 points to 595.0 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN), which lost 2.97% or 22.0 points to trade at 718.0 in late trade. Trubnaya Metallurgicheskaya Kompaniya OAO (MCX:TRMK) declined 1.99% or 1.55 points to end at 76.15 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) shed 0.95% or 1.04 points to 108.58.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 128 to 87 and 23 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was down 4.90% to 21.750.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was up 0.26% or 3.20 to $1254.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in August rose 0.91% or 0.67 to hit $74.12 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 1.93% or 1.50 to trade at $79.11 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.16% to 62.6998, while EUR/RUB rose 0.82% to 73.2010.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.75% at 94.29.