Russian stocks rise at close of trade; Russia’s MOEX rose 0.02% Via Investing.com

Investing.com – Russia stocks were higher after the close on Thursday, as gains in the , and sectors propelled shares higher.

At the close in Moscow, it gained 0.02%.

The best performers of the session on the were Moskovskiy Kreditnyi Bank OAO (MCX: ), which rose 3.74% or 0.23 points to trade at 6.30 at the close. Meanwhile, PhosAgro ao (MCX: ) added 3.51% or 184.00 points to end at 5,432.00 and OK Rusal MKPAO (MCX: ) was up 2.19% or 0.74 points to 34.50 at the end of transactions.

The worst performers of the session were Ozon Holdings PLC (MCX: ), which declined 2.33% or 78.00 points to trade at 3,263.00 at the close. TKS Holding MKPAO (MCX: ) declined 1.71% or 45.50 points to end at 2,614.00 and Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX: ) declined 1.58% or 3.43 points to end at 213.21.

Declining stocks outnumbered advancing ones on the Moscow Stock Exchange by 160 to 89 and 5 ended unchanged.

which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, rose 1.16% to 31.28.

Gold futures for December delivery rose 0.39%, or 10.40, to $2,695.10 a troy ounce. Elsewhere in commodity trading, crude for November delivery fell 3.20%, or 2.23, to $67.46 a barrel, while the Brent crude contract climbed 0.04%, or 0.03 to $70.91 a barrel.

USD/RUB was unchanged 0.00% to 92.61, while EUR/RUB fell 0.01% to 103.50.

US dollar index futures fell 0.32% to 100.31.