Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Oil & Gas, Mining and Telecoms sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MICEX rose 0.34%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MICEX were Surgut (MCX:SNGS), which rose 4.33% or 1.285 points to trade at 30.990 at the close. Moskovskaya Birzha OAO (MCX:MOEX) added 3.20% or 3.12 points to end at 100.70 and Tatneft OAO Pref (MCX:TATN_p) was up 2.22% or 6.20 points to 286.00 in late trade.
Biggest losers included ANK Bashneft OAO Pref (MCX:BANE_p), which lost 11.59% or 142.5 points to trade at 1087.5 in late trade. Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) declined 5.31% or 0.0422 points to end at 0.7528 and Inter rao ees (MCX:IRAO) shed 3.27% or 0.1340 points to 3.9660.
Declining stocks outnumbered rising ones by 117 to 97 and 17 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MICEX options, was down 2.28% to 23.540.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for June delivery was down 0.14% or 1.73 to $1266.37 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in July rose 0.68% or 0.34 to hit $50.14 a barrel, while the August Brent oil contract rose 0.51% or 0.27 to trade at $52.78 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.33% to 56.3313, while EUR/RUB fell 0.78% to 62.948.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.05% at 97.28.