MOSCOW: Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the Manufacturing, Telecoms and Oil & Gas sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.69%.
The best performers of the session on the MICEX were Surgut (MCX:SNGS), which rose 4.20% or 1.340 points to trade at 33.280 at the close. Meanwhile, Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p) added 3.70% or 1.200 points to end at 33.600 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was up 3.40% or 2.21 points to 67.20 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p), which fell 4.82% or 66.0 points to trade at 1304.0 at the close. Bashneft ANK ao (MCX:BANE) declined 3.11% or 60.0 points to end at 1869.0 and E.ON Russia (MCX:EONR) was down 2.17% or 0.0630 points to 2.8400.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 126 to 69 and 10 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was up 1.93% to 29.060 a new 6-months low.
Gold for August delivery was down 0.32% or 3.70 to $1143.70 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in August fell 0.41% or 0.21 to hit $51.20 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract rose 0.17% or 0.10 to trade at $57.22 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.19% to 56.764, while EUR/RUB fell 0.94% to 61.797.
The US Dollar Index was up 0.48% at 97.75.
