Investing.com – Russia equities were higher at the close on Monday, as gains in the Power, Oil & Gas and Mining sectors propelled shares higher.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia rose 1.04%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX), which rose 5.56% or 98.00 points to trade at 1859.50 at the close. Sberbank Rossii OAO Pref (MCX:SBER_p) added 3.24% or 5.06 points to end at 161.30 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) was up 3.02% or 2.70 points to 92.10 in late trade.
Biggest losers included Polymetal International PLC (MCX:POLY), which lost 2.23% or 13.70 points to trade at 601.30 in late trade. MVideo (MCX:MVID) declined 2.03% or 8.30 points to end at 399.70 and PIK (MCX:PIKK) shed 1.76% or 6.10 points to 340.50.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 128 to 67 and 28 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 2.75% to 30.600.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for December delivery was down 0.11% or 1.30 to $1231.20 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in December fell 0.62% or 0.42 to hit $67.17 a barrel, while the January Brent oil contract fell 0.24% or 0.19 to trade at $77.43 a barrel.
USD/RUB was up 0.03% to 65.7395, while EUR/RUB fell 0.12% to 74.8325.
The US Dollar Index Futures was up 0.29% at 96.41.