Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Wednesday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors led shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia added 2.29%.
The best performers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Surgut-pref (MCX:SNGS_p), which rose 4.18% or 1.530 points to trade at 38.135 at the close. Meanwhile, Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) added 3.99% or 73.50 points to end at 1916.50 and Tatneft-3 (MCX:TATN) was up 3.91% or 29.50 points to 784.40 in late trade.
The worst performers of the session were MVideo (MCX:MVID), which fell 4.89% or 20.50 points to trade at 398.50 at the close. Unipro (MCX:UPRO) declined 3.25% or 0.0910 points to end at 2.7080 and Safmar Finansovye Investitsii PAO (MCX:SFIN) was down 2.14% or 13.2 points to 603.8.
Rising stocks outnumbered declining ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 135 to 66 and 25 ended unchanged.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 0.22% to 27.360.
Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.49% or 6.00 to $1216.60 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodities trading, Crude oil for delivery in December rose 0.02% or 0.01 to hit $66.19 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract rose 0.18% or 0.14 to trade at $76.05 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.36% to 65.7900, while EUR/RUB rose 0.10% to 74.4616.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.09% at 96.88.