Investing.com – Russia equities were lower at the close on Monday, as losses in the Mining, Power and Oil & Gas sectors propelled shares lower.
At the close in Moscow, the MOEX Russia fell 0.52%.
The biggest gainers of the session on the MOEX Russia were MegaFon OAO (MCX:MFON), which rose 15.95% or 80.40 points to trade at 584.40 at the close. NPK OVK PAO (MCX:UWGN) added 5.16% or 29.5 points to end at 601.5 and Rosseti ao (MCX:RSTI) was up 3.07% or 0.0237 points to 0.7958 in late trade.
Biggest losers included MMC Norilsk Nickel (MCX:GMKN), which lost 6.30% or 718.0 points to trade at 10680.0 in late trade. Yandex NV (MCX:YNDX) declined 2.38% or 57.00 points to end at 2333.00 and SG mechel (MCX:MTLR) shed 1.69% or 1.75 points to 101.75.
Advancing stocks outnumbered falling ones by 114 to 95 and 23 ended unchanged on the Moscow Stock Exchange.
The Russian VIX, which measures the implied volatility of MOEX Russia options, was up 1.63% to 22.510.
In commodities trading, Gold Futures for August delivery was down 0.19% or 2.40 to $1238.80 a troy ounce. Meanwhile, Crude oil for delivery in September fell 3.95% or 2.76 to hit $67.19 a barrel, while the September Brent oil contract fell 4.25% or 3.20 to trade at $72.13 a barrel.
USD/RUB was down 0.37% to 62.3243, while EUR/RUB fell 0.23% to 72.9063.
The US Dollar Index Futures was down 0.08% at 94.36.